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markherrmann:

By Joe Mahoney and Christos Pitelis:

Why did the chicken cross the road?

“We must first study the chickens in aggregate; once we understand the chicken industry, then we can explain the individual chicken’s conduct.” — Joe Bain

“We must study the potential mobility barriers of a meaningful strategic group of chickens to understand the individual chicken’s conduct.” — Richard Caves

“The reason for the chicken’s behavior is causally ambiguous.” — Richard Rumelt

“The behavior of the chicken is socially embedded.” — Mark Granovetter

“The chicken is merely following its standard operating procedures.” — Richard Cyert and James March

“Walking across the street is a core competence of the chicken.” — Gary Hamel

“Walking across the street is the chicken’s strategic intent.” — C. K. Prahalad

“It is the chicken’s dominant logic.” — Richard Bettis

“It is simply a routine of the chicken.” — Sidney Winter

“In a complex environment such behavior is the chicken’s dynamic capability.” — David Teece

“”We will need to triangulate to understand the ESSENCE OF DECISION of the chicken.” — Graham Allison

“The chicken is attempting to economize on bounded rationality and attenuate opportunism.” — Oliver Williamson

“The chicken is choosing purposefully based on its perception of its subjective opportunity set.” — Edith Tilton Penrose

“The chicken will likely be hit by a car.” – Population ecology theorists

“The chicken is driven to seek power and resources from the other side of the road.” — Jeffry Pfeffer

“The chicken’s walking is part of its activity system.” – Michael Porter

“The chicken’s walking is a discovery procedure; a kind of chicken’s spontaneous order.” — Friedrich Hayek

“The fact that the chicken continues to walk across the road, indicates that the chickens walking has been transformed from a core capability to a core rigidity.” — Dorothy Leonard Barton

“To position itself.” — Porter

“Because the path is more interesting than the equilibrium position.” — Penrose

“Learning by doing.” — Arrow

“Because of procedural (ir)rationality.” — Simon

“To effect intra-chicken conflict resolution.” — Cyert and March

“To experience unit cost economies.” — Chandler

“To claim the residual corn.” – Alchian and Demsetz

“Spontaneous dis-order.” – Mises

“For creative distraction.” — Schumpeter, before he learned English

“To avoid chicken capture.” — Stigler

“Because of market failure.” — Coase

“It has nothing to lose except the oven.” — Marx

“Because of its animal spirit.” — Keynes

“To collect dispersed knowledge.” — Hayek

“Just to be on the safe side.” — Knight

“A road unexamined is not worth crossing.” — Socrates

“To return to God.” — St. Augustine

“It is due to the chicken’s monads.” — Leibniz

“To advance the evolution of the world.” – John Dewey

“The chicken is absurd.” — Sartre

“It does not make a difference.” – Albert Camus

“All I know is that I don’t know.” — Plato

“It just keeps walking.” — Johnny Walker