Constructivism, fuzzy sets and (very) small-N: Revisiting the conditions for communicative action

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 512-521

  Häge, Frank M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arguing; Bargaining; Communicative action; Comparative case studies; European Union; Fuzzy set analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947726151     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2007.01.009     Document Type: Article

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