This introduction reviews the history and core principles of Charles Lindblom's concept of muddling and its application across a wide array of business decisions. The approach recognizes certain decisions as sequential, strategic practices and thus finds applications in a wide variety of...

Lindblom's “muddling-through” (1959) or “incrementalizing” (1979) approach in policy development is ideal as a strategic and operational paradigm amid the numerous paradoxes present in the network organizational form of coordination. This paper examines these paradoxes in the context of...