Jerker Denrell’s research focuses on learning, decision making, and strategy. Much of his work explores the complications of adaptation in ambiguous environments.
One set of papers has examined the difficulties of learning about the determinants of performance in competitive environments. In papers published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, and Organization Science Jerker has explored how randomness and sample biases can lead to flawed assessments of the determinants of performance and industry evolution.
Another set of papers has examined how the process of learning from experience can systematically bias the sample of information and experiences individuals and firms have access to. In papers published in Psychological Review and Science he has illustrated how learning from such biased samples can generate in-group bias, discrimination, risk aversion, and conformity. 

Contact Details:

Jerker.Denrell@sbs.ox.ac.uk 

Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford
OX1 1HP
UK

Tel: 1865 288948