1 Underpinning Strategic Behaviours and Posture of Principal Investigators in Transition/Uncertain Environments Authors 1 : Conor O’Kane, ȋcorresponding authorȌ Department of Management, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Email: conor.okane@otago.ac.nz Phone: (0064) 34798121 James Cunningham, Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, NUI Galway, Galway Ireland Email: james.cunningham@nuigalway.ie Vincent Mangematin Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France Email: mailto: vincent.mangematin@grenoble-em.com Paul O’Reilly, Faculty of Business, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland Email: paul.oreilly@dit.ie 1 The authors would like to thank the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences who provided funding for this research hal-00794944, version 1 - 26 Feb 2013