企业管理系学术讲座系列（6月16日）

主题: Superficial Strategic Decision Making: The Case of the Muskrat Falls Project

时间：2025年6月16日（周一） 15:00-16:30

地点：史带楼303室

主讲嘉宾： Jianyun Tang Professor

Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland

主持人：陈鸿志 副教授

摘要：How do strategic leaders cope with their often lack of related knowledge and expertise in making strategic decisions? I induced a midrange theory of superficial strategic decision making (SDM) based on a case study of the multi-year decision process of the Muskrat Falls Project, a hydroelectric megaproject in Canada that experienced significant cost overrun and schedule delay. Superficial SDM is manifested as confirmatory biases, uninformed or misinformed decisions, blind trust, and dismissive of critics, and has as its antecedents individual factors such as prejudice, lack of related experience, and poor judgment, and contextual factors such as intolerant culture, confirmatory context, and dominant power. While superficial SDM seems valuable for coping with strategic leaders’ lack of related knowledge and expertise, it also implies looming perils, in particular, compromised decision quality and leader effectiveness, especially in the long term. This study suggests that mitigating superficial SDM in particular and superficial leadership in general is crucial for effective leadership.

嘉宾简介：

Jianyun Tang is a professor of strategic management at the Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland. He received his Ph.D. from the Ivey Business School at Western University. His research interests include strategic leadership and governance in both the North American and the Chinese contexts. His work has been published in such journals as the Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, European Management Journal, Journal of World Business, and Organizational Dynamics.