Even though intuition is recognized as imperative in
strategic thinking management literature is
surprisingly silent on the issue. This inquiry thus
provides an historical review of philosophical,
psychological and management theory on intuition. It
reveals that philosophers conceive intuition as
rational while psychologists tend not to.
Philosophers do so primarily because intuition is
anchored in Ideas, Forms and Archetypes, which are
perceived as apriori laws governing and conditioning
all existence. The argument is that intuition is the
ontological foundation for any normative theory...