Umbrella Advocates Versus Validity Police: A Life-Cycle Model

Organization Science

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 199-212

  Hirsch, Paul M ^a   Levin, Daniel Z ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Organization Theory; Paradigms; Sociology of Organization Science; Theory Development; Umbrella Constructs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033471326     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.10.2.199     Document Type: Article

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