12 manage vs. Wikipedia on management

Kim Warren — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:29:10 +0000

The post on game theory reminds me to recommend the 12manage site for (mostly) authoritative explanations and discussions on a wide range of management topics, including strategic management – multiple languages too! Wikipedia does OK within its own constraints, but as I’ve blogged before, it’s pretty flakey on strategy. Jaap de Jong who edits 12manage does a great job managing and moderating the content and discussion to keep it on track, though it’s not possible to prevent entirely some off-target comments getting through.

Anyone using game theory?

Kim Warren — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:19:31 +0000

Though I have heard of game theory being used in a few particular and special cases (e.g. the auctioning of 3G cellphone licenses) I have not seen anything of it being used in general strategic management or business planning. The strategy textbooks dismiss it as too uni-dimensional and limited to special cases to be useful, and I can find virtually no articles in e.g. Harvard Business Review or McKinsey Quarterly giving any encouraging cases where it has been helpful. (Though I did see on 12manage reference to a strategy+business article on Barry Nalebuff).
Does anyone know otherwise?

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12 manage vs. Wikipedia on management

Anyone using game theory?