Microfoundations of Problem Solving: Attentional Engagement Predicts Problem-Solving Strategies

The authors are grateful to Elisa Bosio, Nadia Neytcheva, and Laura Strada for their collaboration in the collection and analysis of the think-aloud data; to Ilaria Devittori for piloting the experimental tasks; and to Adrian Oesch for research assistance. Very useful comments were received from the special issue editors and three anonymous reviewers; participants in the two conferences associated with this special issue; seminar participants at the Politecnico di Milano, ETH Zurich, and Universidad de los Andes; and conference participants at the Strategic Management Society Conference and the Carnegie School of Organizational Learning Conference. Daniella Laureiro-Martinez and Jose Pablo Arrieta contributed equally to this work. The order was chosen to create an acronym, LAB, that parallels the methods used in of this article.