Theory Construction as Disciplined Imagination
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review
- Vol. 14 (4) , 516-531
- https://doi.org/10.2307/258556
Abstract
The process of theory construction in organizational studies is portrayed as imagination disciplined by evolutionary processes analogous to artificial selection...This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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