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Series: Elements in Business Strategy
Microfoundations
Nature, Debate, and Promise
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2019
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'Microfoundations' has become prominent in the discourse of management scholars. But what is it and how does it matter? This Element provides a characterization of microfoundations based on classical work on the methodology of social science and documents and discusses its manifestations in management research over the last one and a half decades. It also covers the relation of microfoundations to multilevel research, criticisms of microfoundations, and empirical research strategies for microfoundations.
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- Series: Elements in Business StrategyOnline ISBN: 9781108685498Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication: 28 November 2019
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