pt. 1. Disorganized worlds -- pt. 2. The two sources of disorganization -- pt. 3. The fluctuating legitimacy of the logics of action -- pt. 4. The disjointed history of temporary advantages -- pt. 5. Re-ensensing the world.

How do we, as management researchers, develop novel theoretical contributions and, thereby, potentially break new ground in management studies? To address this question, we review previous methodological work on theorizing and advance a typology of the reasoning processes that underlie...

[eng] This study deals with the population of offset printers in Paris from 1950 to 1985. Survival model is employed to test the influences of the variations of industrial variables on the firms life duration. Besides, population variables are also significantly introduced in the models. These...