The Strategic Organization Design group is an internationally recognized research environment at the intersection of behavioral strategy, organization theory, and management science. Rooted in the behavioral theory of the firm and the Carnegie tradition, we study how organizations aggregate dispersed judgments, learn and adapt under uncertainty, and design structures and decision processes to pursue strategic objectives.
A growing stream of our research examines distributed intelligence and agency: how cognitive work, information, judgment, and decision authority are divided and combined across people, organizational units, algorithms, and AI systems. We study these questions in established firms, human-AI organizations, platform ecosystems, and decentralized organizations.
We develop theory and combine formal and computational models, experiments, decision-analytic methods, and digital trace and organizational data.
A shared intellectual agenda, close collaboration, and rigorous weekly research seminars are central to our research culture and the development of scholars across career stages.
Current research themes
- Behavioral strategy, search, and adaptation
How organizations learn, respond to feedback, and adapt under uncertainty
- Strategic organization design and decision systems
How authority, incentives, information, and coordination shape decisions, innovation, and performance
- Distributed intelligence and emerging organizational forms
How human and artificial agency can be organized and governed