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This piece discusses some of the history and ideas present during the first decades at the RAND Corporation, the think tank which became significant during the post WWII years and became an important institution for the mentoring and development of strategic thinking in the US. It also had an important role for the development of important areas in economics and business school perspectives, such as game theory, evolutionary, behavioral and experimental economics, and others; and it also was a place where several key contributors to the strategic management field worked (including Herbert Simon, Sidney Winter, and Richard Nelson).
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Augier, M. (2017). RAND Corporation. In: Augier, M., Teece, D. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94848-2_231-1
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