TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter introduces evolutionary neuroscience and its organizational applications, especially its usefulness for motivation analysis in macrolevel disciplines such as strategic management. Macrolevel organizational disciplines have mostly lacked a theory of motivation beyond self-interest assumptions, which fail to explain many important macrolevel organizational phenomena. Evolutionary neuroscience provides an empirically grounded, parsimonious perspective on the human brain and brain evolution which helps clarify the profound complexities of motivation. Evolutionary neuroscience’s theory of the physiological causes of self- and other-interested motivation can support better macrolevel motivation analysis and unify disparate, potentially conflicting motivation theories. Examples are offered of how neuroscience-based motivation theory can support more comprehensive strategic management analysis of competences and competitive advantage.
VL  - 7
SN  - 978-1-78560-430-0, 978-1-78560-431-7/1479-3571
DO  - 10.1108/S1479-357120150000007005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-357120150000007005
AU  - Wood Robert Chapman
AU  - Levine Daniel S.
AU  - Cory Gerald A.
AU  - Wilson Daniel R.
PY  - 2015
Y1  - 2015/01/01
TI  - Evolutionary Neuroscience and Motivation in Organizations
T2  - Organizational Neuroscience
T3  - Monographs in Leadership and Management
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 143
EP  - 167
Y2  - 2024/05/08
ER  -