Strategy Content and the Research Process: A Critique and Commentary

The purpose of this paper is to encourage discussion on the ‘state-of-the-science’ in strategy content research. We present a view of an interactive research process and argue that strategy content research would benefit from (1) more carefully developed theoretical work; (2) more theory-driven data analysis; and (3) less emphasis on the immediate applicability of results.

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