ICOS Presents:

"Economic Analysis for Business Strategy: The Case of the Evolutionary Approach"

Professor Sidney Winter

Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

March 23, 2007

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Introduction (00:00:00)

Title Slide (00:01:50)

Outline (00:02:10)

What is Strategy? (00:06:38)

“Key”? “Effective”?, What Criterion? (00:08:25)

Why not a broader view? (00:11:40)

Yet to a first appoximation... (00:12:40)

Do profit concepts from economics and accounting help much with this? (00:13:18)

Big Challenge #1: Time (00:18:02)

Aside 1: how this point figures in Jacobides, Winter & Kassberger. (JWK) (00:25:15)

The Challenge of Time and the Response of Evolutionary Economics (00:27:16)

Aside 2 on JWK (00:28:00)

Challenge of Time, 2 (00:28:27)

Aside 3 on JWK (00:31:07)

Big Challenge #2: Expectations Under Uncertainty (00:31:40)

The Challenge of Expectations and the Response of Evolutionary Economics (00:33:10)

Challenge of Expectations, 2 (00:36:40)

“Dubious survival value” ? (00:39:15)

Aside 4 on JWK (00:42:40)

The Challenge of Decision & Choice How does it happen? (00:43:45)

Challenge of Decision, 2 (00:48:50)

Economics, the “science of decision”?Based on Friedman’s methodology? (00:49:05)

The Friedmanian Heritage (00:50:35)

The Response on Decision (00:52:00)

Aside 5 on JWK (00:53:40)

The Challenge of Competence, aka the “competence puzzle” (NW 2002) (00:54:40)

Response on Competence (01:00:55)

Competence Response, 2 (01:05:10)

Aside 6 on JWK (01:05:50)

Connections: Time, Expectations, Decisions, Competence (01:11:10)

Conclusion (01:12:22)

We need (01:13:00)

And we need (01:13:26)

Closing (01:14:18)

Questions (01:14:40)

Presentation of Tile (01:28:20)

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