Category stretching: Reorienting research on categories in strategy, entrepreneurship, and organization theory

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1100-1123

  Durand, Rodolphe ^a   Paolella, Lionel ^a  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Categories; Causal model theory; Goal based approach; Prototype

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882254010     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2011.01039.x     Document Type: Article

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