Bare Metal and Virtual Machines: Reading Six Management Papers from an EE Background and an Investor's Seat
On organizational imprinting, strategic pivots, and what business research is actually for I spent the last few days reading six papers on organizational imprinting and strategic change. This is preparation: I am about to start a PhD in management focused on strategic redirection in Chinese deep-tech ventures, after a decade of investing in exactly those companies. Before I let the field’s vocabulary reshape how I think, I wanted to record how I think now — as someone whose undergraduate training was in electronic engineering, with a later detour through strategic marketing at Cardiff, and with a portfolio of hard-tech companies whose founders I have watched pivot, refuse to pivot, and occasionally run out of cash while deciding. ...