Jackson, Gregory; Helfen, Markus; Kaplan, Rami; Kirsch, Anja - In: The production of managerial knowledge and …, (pp. 21-42). 2019
This chapter addresses the concern that much theory building in organization and management (OM) research suffers from de-contextualization. The authors argue that de-contextualization comes in two main forms: reductionism and grand theory. Whereas reductionism tends to downplay context in favor...