ABSTRACT
On the ground of the application of evolutionary epistemology to examine the path that strategic management studies have taken, this chapter aims to identify the dominant paradigms in strategic management and to present an interpretation of their evolutionary history intended as a history of incomplete dominances. The crux of the argument is that, since its founding in the 1960s, strategic management as a discipline has developed and revolved around four relevant paradigms that have been the lighthouses illuminating the work of the researchers in the field.
