When theories become tools: Toward a framework for pragmatic validity

By Nicolay Worren, K. Moore, R. Elliott. 2002

164 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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1. Paula A. Jarzabkowski
2. A. P. Spee
3. Sarah Kaplan
4. Ann Langley
5. Chahrazad Abdallah

Citations in the corpus

• Strategy tools as boundary objects (2009, background): “…as Porter’s five forces, because these are well known (Argyres and McGahan, 2000) and have technical, cultural and lingu istic legitimacy that makes them easily appropriable (Campbell, 1997), even where they are subsequently adapted to the specific practices of an organization (Zbaracki, 1998).”