The Mirage of Microfoundations

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1389-1394

  Hodgson, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation problems; Emergent properties; Methodological individualism; Microfoundations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869503247     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2012.01079.x     Document Type: Note

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