An ontological turn in categories research: From standards of legitimacy to evidence of actuality

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1138-1154

  Kennedy, Mark Thomas ^a   Fiss, Peer C ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories; Emergence; Methodology; Ontology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882248164     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12031     Document Type: Article

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