The Microfoundations Movement in Strategy and Organization Theory

By Teppo Felin, N. J. Foss, Robert E. Ployhart. 2015

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Entrepreneurial team and strategic agility: A conceptual framework and research agenda (2020, background): “In so doing, we advance the entrepreneurial team research by building upon the micro-foundation movement (Felin et al., 2015).”
A Review and Road Map of Entrepreneurial Equity Financing Research: Venture Capital, Corporate Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Crowdfunding, and Accelerators (2017, background): “Finally, management scholars have been increasingly exploring the microfoundations of strategy and competitive advantage (Felin et al., 2015).”
Strategic agility-driven business model renewal: the case of an SME (2017, methodology): “Further, the microfoundational approach requires a method that can gather information at the individual level (Felin et al., 2015).”
Revisiting James March (1991): Whither exploration and exploitation? (2018, background): “Further research along these lines can help solidify a first principle logic seen in work on the microfoundations of strategy (Felin et al., 2015). A rather unique approach to this is seen in Laureiro-Martínez et al. (2015), who utilize functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine how bra”
Measuring employee innovation:a review of existing scales and the development of the innovative behavior and innovation support inventories across cultures (2017, background): “Employee individual innovative behavior constitutes a microfoundation (Felin et al., 2015) of organizational innovation and intrapreneurship.”
S-D logic–informed customer engagement: integrative framework, revised fundamental propositions, and application to CRM (2019, background): “…of individuals leads to emergent [and] collective outcomes… and how relations between macro-variables are mediated by micro-actions and interactions” (Felin et al. 2015, p. 4), thus illustrating the relatedness of these theoretical levels (Langlois 2004, p. 261) and the iterative nature of…”
Digitization capability and the digitalization of business models in business-to-business firms: Past, present, and future (2020, methodology): “To further explore this three-fold digitization capability as an organizational phenomenon, we adopt the micro-foundational view of strategy (Felin, Foss, & Ployhart, 2015; Foss & Pedersen, 2014) and employ three micro-level categor-ies—individuals, processes, and structures—as suggested by…”
From Strategy to Action: Transforming Organizational Goals into Organizational Behavior (2018, neutral): “More recently, a microfoundations movement has brought these behavioral issues to the forefront of strategy realization (Felin et al. 2015).”
The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis (2016, neutral): “…research questions will generate opportunities to bridge the micro- and macro-level views (cf. Rothaermel and Hess 2007; Markard and Truffer 2008; Felin, Foss, and Ployhart 2015; Geels et al. 2016) as well as address possible paradoxes within OI, such as in the context of ambidexterity or…”
How Responsible Leadership Motivates Employees to Engage in Organizational Citizenship Behavior for the Environment: A Double-Mediation Model (2019, background): “In addition, interpersonal interaction among individual employees helps promote sustainable management at the macro level [7].”