Getting to the Root of Things: The Role of Epistemic Motivation and Construal Levels in Strategic Problem Formulation

The authors thank Jackson Nickerson and Olin Business School’s GOMERS for useful feedback on this paper. The authors also thank Zhejiang University’s Academy of Global Agriculture Business for giving us access to its sample of top managers in the agriculture sector. Finally, the authors express gratitude toward the editors and anonymous reviewers of Strategy Science.