Teppo Felin

University of Oxford - Said Business School

Professor of Strategic Management

Park End Street

Oxford, OX1 1HP

Great Britain

http://sites.google.com/site/teppofelin2/

Utah State University - Huntsman School of Business

3500 Old Main Hill

Logan, UT 84322-3500

United States

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1.

Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Causal Reasoning

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2024
Teppo Felin and Matthias Holweg
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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cognition, artificial intelligence, information processing, prediction, decisions, strategy, theory-based view

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Lean Startup and the Business Model: Experimentation Revisited

Long Range Planning (Open Access)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 30 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2023
Teppo Felin, Alfonso Gambardella, Scott Stern and Todd Zenger
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Utah
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entrepreneurship, lean startup, business model, strategy, organizational economics, innovation, technology

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Value Lab: A Tool for Entrepreneurial Strategy

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Value Lab: A Tool for Entrepreneurial Strategy

Management & Business Review, 1(2), 68-77.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
Teppo Felin, Alfonso Gambardella and Todd Zenger
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology and University of Utah
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entrepreneurship, strategy, innovation, organizational economics, lean startup, business model, technology

Value Lab: A Tool for Entrepreneurial Strategy

Management and Business Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 2021
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 04 Nov 2021
Teppo Felin, Alfonso Gambardella and Todd Zenger
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology and University of Utah
Downloads 221 (291,745)
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What Are Microfoundations?

Academy of Management Perspectives, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Apr 2013
Jay B. Barney and Teppo Felin
Ohio State University (OSU) - Human Resource Research and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 1,229 (36,422)
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microfoundations, aggregation, emergence, organization theory, strategy

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Valve Corporation: Strategy Tipping Points and Thresholds

Forthcoming in Journal of Organization Design
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 Feb 2015
Teppo Felin
University of Oxford - Said Business School
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strategy, organization design, thresholds

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Theories of the Firm-Market Boundary

Academy of Management Annals, 2011
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 17 May 2011 Last Revised: 31 May 2011
Todd Zenger, Teppo Felin and Lyda S. Bigelow
University of Utah, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business
Downloads 809 (65,640)
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theory of the firm, firm boundaries, market failure, organization failure

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Open or Closed Innovation? Problem Solving and Governance Choice

Research Policy, 2014
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2017
Teppo Felin and Todd Zenger
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Utah
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open innovation, governance choice, theory of the firm, strategy, organizational boundaries, problem solving

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Economic Opportunity and Evolution: Beyond Landscapes and Bounded Rationality

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2014
Teppo Felin, Stuart Kauffman, Roger Koppl, Roger Koppl and Giuseppe Longo
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Institute for Systems Biology, Whitman School of ManagementWhitman School of Management and CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure
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entrepreneurship, organization science, econonomic opportunity, phase space, NK landscapes, complexity theory, biology, evolutionary theory

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The Theory-Based View: Entrepreneurial Microfoundations, Resources, and Choices

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Robert Wuebker, Todd Zenger and Teppo Felin
University of Utah - Department of Management, University of Utah and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 631 (90,536)
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Entrepreneurship, theory-based view, entrepreneur as scientist, theory of the firm, resource origins, experiments, new venture teams, entrepreneurial finance

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Designing Organizations for Dynamic Capabilities

California Management Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Oct 2015
Teppo Felin and Thomas C. Powell
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Oxford
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organization structure, design, capabilities, crowds

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A Scientific Method for Startups

Journal of Management, Forthcoming, Bocconi University Management Research Paper
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2024
Teppo Felin, Alfonso Gambardella, Elena Novelli and Todd Zenger
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London and University of Utah
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entrepreneurship, value creation, lean startup, theory-based view, scientific method, discriminating alignment, strategy

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Individuals and Organizations: Thoughts on a Micro-Foundations Project for Strategic Management and Organizational Analysis

SMG Working Paper No. 2/2006
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 23 Apr 2007
Teppo Felin and Nicolai J. Foss
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation
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Building Micro-Foundations for the Routines, Capabilities, and Performance Links

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 02 May 2007
Peter Malcolm Abell, Teppo Felin and Nicolai J. Foss
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Interdisciplinary Institute of Management, University of Oxford - Said Business School and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation
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Routines, capabilities, micro-foundations, production function

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Resource Origins and Search

Strategic Management Journal
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2021
Teppo Felin, Stuart Kauffman and Todd Zenger
University of Oxford - Said Business School, BiosGroup and University of Utah
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resource-based view, factor markets, entrepreneurship, beliefs, adjacent possible, strategy

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Against Design

Arizona State Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 27 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2015
Caryn Devins, Roger Koppl, Roger Koppl, Stuart Kauffman and Teppo Felin
Independent, Whitman School of ManagementWhitman School of Management, BiosGroup and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 354 (180,417)
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constitution, design, law and economics, institutions, innovation

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The Organizational Economics of Organizational Capability and Heterogeneity: A Research Agenda

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Mar 2012
Nicholas Argyres, Teppo Felin, Nicolai J. Foss and Todd Zenger
Washington University in St. Louis, University of Oxford - Said Business School, Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation and University of Utah
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Organizational economics, theory of the firm, heterogeneity, capabilities

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Microfoundations of Ecosystems: The Theory-Led Firm and Capability Growth

Strategic Organization (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2023
Teppo Felin and Nicolai J. Foss
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation
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ecosystems, microfoundations, capabilities, organizational economics, strategy, governance

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Microfoundations of Social Theory: A Response to Jepperson and Meyer

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 05 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2015
Teppo Felin, Nicolai J. Foss and Peter Malcolm Abell
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Interdisciplinary Institute of Management
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micro-macro, multi-level theory, social theory, social aggregation

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The Search Function and Evolutionary Novelty

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2019
Teppo Felin and Stuart Kauffman
University of Oxford - Said Business School and BiosGroup
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evolution, search, organisms, novelty, innovation, economics

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Strategy, Problems and a Theory for the Firm

Organization Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Oct 2015
Teppo Felin and Todd Zenger
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Utah
Downloads 234 (277,425)
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strategy, innovation, problem solving, governance

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The Theory-Based View: Economic Actors as Theorists

Strategy Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 13 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2017
Teppo Felin and Todd Zenger
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Utah
Downloads 214 (302,268)
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Strategy, Cognition, Perception, Theory for the Firm, Governance

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The (Proper) Microfoundations of Routines and Capabilities: A Response to Winter, Pentland, Hodgson and Knudsen

Journal of Institutional Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Sep 2011
Teppo Felin and Nicolai J. Foss
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation
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utionary economics and routines, philosophy of science, organizational economics and capabilities, microfoundations

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Social Reality, the Boundaries of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, and Economics

SMG Working Paper No. 19/2008
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 30 Jun 2008
Teppo Felin and Nicolai J. Foss
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation
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organization theory and social reality, organizational economics, philosophy of social science

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On Surprise-Hacking

Perception (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 02 Jan 2019
Teppo Felin, Mia Felin, Joachim Krueger and Jan Koenderink
University of Oxford - Said Business School, University College London, Brown University and KU Leuven
Downloads 183 (349,630)
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perception, cognition, behavioral economics, bounded rationality, p-hacking

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Generative Rationality, Salience and Growing Awareness

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2022
Teppo Felin and Jan Koenderink
University of Oxford - Said Business School and KU Leuven
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rationality, decision making, cues, statistics, biology of perception, awareness

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Experience and Repetition as Antecedents of Organizational Routines and Capabilities: A Critique of Behaviorist and Empiricist Approaches

SMG WP 9/2009
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Nov 2009
Nicolai J. Foss and Teppo Felin
Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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Organizational routines and capabilities, repetition and experience, empiricism and rationalism

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Does AI Prediction Scale to Decision Making?

Number of pages: 4 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2025
Mari Sako and Teppo Felin
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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The Law and Big Data

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2017
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 22 Mar 2023
Caryn Devins, Teppo Felin, Roger Koppl, Roger Koppl and Stuart Kauffman
Independent, University of Oxford - Said Business School, Whitman School of ManagementWhitman School of Management and Institute for Systems Biology
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law, algorithms, artificial intelligence, big data

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The Adjacent Possible: Harnessing Functional Excess, Experimentation, and Protoscience as Tool

Industrial and Corporate Change
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2023
Teppo Felin and Stuart Kauffman
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Institute for Systems Biology
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evolution, function, the adjacent possible, disruption, artificial selection, evolutionary economics, strategy

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Rationality, Perception, and the All-Seeing Eye

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, (2016) DOI 10.3758/s13423-016-1198-z
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 10 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2017
Teppo Felin, Jan Koenderink and Joachim Krueger
University of Oxford - Said Business School, KU Leuven and Brown University
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cognition, rationality, perception, behavioral economics

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Factor Markets, Actors and Affordances

Industrial and Corporate Change, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Oct 2015
Teppo Felin, Antonio Mastrogiorgio, Mariano Mastrogiorgio and Stuart Kauffman
University of Oxford - Said Business School, CIRPS - Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Per lo Sviluppo sostenibile, IE University and BiosGroup
Downloads 147 (421,801)
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factor markets, strategy, innovation

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Causal Reasoning and the Scientific Entrepreneur: Beyond Bayes

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Sep 2024
Timo Ehrig, Teppo Felin and Todd Zenger
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI-MIS), University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Utah
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causal reasoning, bayesian methods, uncertainty, entrepreneurship, strategy, priors

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Mind, Rationality, and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Debate

Psychon Bull Rev, DOI 10.3758/s13423-017-1333-5
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Oct 2017
Nick Chater, Teppo Felin, David C. Funder, Gerd Gigerenzer, Jan Koenderink, Joachim Krueger, Denis Noble, Samuel Nordli, Mike Oaksford, Barry Schwartz, Keith Stanovich and Peter Todd
University of Warwick - Warwick Business School, University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of California, Riverside, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development, KU Leuven, Brown University, University of Oxford, Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Birkbeck University of London, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, University of Toronto and Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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behavioral economics, rationality, cognition, psychology

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Information Aggregation, Matching and Radical Market-Hierarchy Hybrids: Implications for the Theory of the Firm

Strategic Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Aug 2011
Teppo Felin and Todd Zenger
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Utah
Downloads 129 (468,282)
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theory of the firm, market-hierarchy hybrids, crowdsourcing, prediction markets

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Seeking Rationality: $500 Bills and Perceptual Obviousness

Routledge Handbook on Bounded Rationality, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 May 2019 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2020
Teppo Felin and Mia Felin
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University College London
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rationality, rational expectations, perception, cognition, firms and markets

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Firms, Crowds, and Innovation

Strategic Organization, 2017, Vol 15(2) 119-140
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Oct 2017
Teppo Felin, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Tushman
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group and Harvard University - Organizational Behavior Unit
Downloads 109 (532,549)

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crowdsourcing, innovation, open innovation, organization theory, strategy

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Game Theory, Conditional Preferences, and Social Influence

PLOS ONE, Vol. 8, No. 2, February 2013
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 28 Apr 2013
Wynn Stirling and Teppo Felin
Brigham Young University and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 90 (606,558)

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game theory, social influence, conditional preferences

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Social Choice in Organizations

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2011
Wynn Stirling and Teppo Felin
Brigham Young University and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads 90 (606,558)

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organization theory, strategy as social choice, preference aggregation

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More Thumbs Than Rules: Is Rationality an Exaptation?

Frontiers in Psychology
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Mar 2022
Antonio Mastrogiorgio, Teppo Felin, Stuart Kauffman and Mariano Mastrogiorgio
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, University of Oxford - Said Business School, Institute for Systems Biology and IE University
Downloads 81 (650,985)

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bounded rationality, exaptation, embodied rationality, heuristics, neural reuse, spandrels

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Microfoundations of Routines and Capabilities: Individuals, Processes, and Structure

Posted: 20 Jan 2012
Teppo Felin, Nicolai J. Foss, Koen Heimeriks and Tammy L. Madsen
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Copenhagen Business School - Department of Strategy and Innovation, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and Santa Clara University

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Microfoundations, routines and capabilities, aggregation, micro-macro links