abstract The intersection of academic disciplines and fields provides an important forum for
creative theory building. In this article, we identify three modes of theory building at the …

The diffusion of organizational practices remains a central concern for scholars from diverse
disciplines and backgrounds. We assess the most recent 20 years of research on …

Emergence, the coming-into-being of new entities, new organizations, or new structures out
of the interactions of individual agents in networks, is becoming a central concept in today's …

Curiosity has increasingly been deemed to hold pivotal influence over the ventures founders
create. While this growing body of knowledge has helped us understand the origins of a …

In this study, the authors provide an assessment of the ecological theory of organizational
form emergence and focus on the positive density effect associated with legitimation. The …

In Emergence and Metacontingency (hereafter E&M), Houmanfar, Rodrigues and Ward offer
some reinterpretation of concepts and an application of their interpretation to organizational …

The historical turn in organization studies has brought with it increased attention to context,
contingency, and the importance of time and place. For all scholars of organizations, this …

Management and organization studies have long been interested in the social contexts and
enduring consequences of individual and collective action. Yet, empirically observing both …

Complexity theory can contribute to process organizational studies (PROS) in two important
ways: First, complexity theory can help PROS researchers construct better models of …

Congruent to fashions in clothing, management knowledge, as contained in organization
concepts, is continuously and collectively rejected while embraced only a short time before …