Putting critical realism to work in the study of business relationship processes

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 300-311

  Ryan, Annmarie ^a   Tähtinen, Jaana ^b   Vanharanta, Markus ^c   Mainela, Tuija ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c Unit D   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Critical realism; Critical realist research spiral; Ontological consistency; Processual research design; Theorizing from qualitative (case) research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858333896     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2012.01.011     Document Type: Article

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