Influential Article Review- A Report on the Role of NK Landscapes

Abstract

This paper examines strategy and organization. We present insights from a highly influential paper. Here are the highlights from this paper: The NK landscape methodology has been used by much research in strategy and organizations, and the concept of “landscape” has become a popular business idea. Despite such popularity, exactly what NK landscapes are and how they work is typically obscure to all but a small specialist audience. This technical note clarifies the NK landscape methodology by explaining how an NK landscape is computed. This note also discusses ways in which NK landscapes are represented and used in research. The aim of this note is enabling more researchers to engage more deeply with the work that relies on the landscape concept. For our overseas readers, we then present the insights from this paper in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German.