The future of strategic management research: Assessing the quality of theory borrowing

European Management Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 179-190

  Kenworthy, Thomas P ^a   Verbeke, Alain ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Institutional theory; Strategic management; Theory borrowing; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929289505     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2015.03.007     Document Type: Article

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