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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 November 2019
      28 November 2019
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      9781108685498
      9781108468985
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108685498
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      Elements in Business Strategy
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      Strategic Management, Management
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    'Microfoundations' has become prominent in the discourse of management scholars. But what is it and how does it matter? This Element provides a characterization of microfoundations based on classical work on the methodology of social science and documents and discusses its manifestations in management research over the last one and a half decades. It also covers the relation of microfoundations to multilevel research, criticisms of microfoundations, and empirical research strategies for microfoundations.

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