Embracing the complexity turn in management research for modeling multiple realities

The Complexity Turn: Cultural, Management, and Marketing Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1-19

  Woodside, Arch G ^a,b,c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONACO   (Monaco)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antecedent; Configuration; Contrarian case; fsQCA; Model; Necessary; Outcome; Sufficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019900524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47028-3_1     Document Type: Chapter

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