Microfoundations have received increased attention in strategy and organization theory over
the past decade. In this paper, we take stock of the microfoundations movement, its origins …

In the extant organizational, management, and strategy literatures there are now frequent
calls for microfoundations. However, there is little consensus on what microfoundations are …

This issue of the Academy of Management Perspectives is devoted to a compelling and
controversial set of logics being debated within the management discipline: the …

If the project to bring “microfoundations” into strategic management and organizational
analysis (Abel, Felin and Foss 2008, Felin and Foss 2005, 2006, 2009) simply means that …

The microfoundations research agenda presents an expanded theoretical perspective
because it considers individuals, their characteristics, and their interactions as relevant …

Micro-foundations have emerged as an important foundational theme in recent management
research. I offer an interpretation of what micro-foundations may mean in the context of …

The basic motivation for the microfoundations research agenda in strategy has been to
decompose macro-level constructs in terms of the actions and interactions of lower level …

One of the most critical challenges faced by management scholars is how to integrate micro
and macro research methods and theories. This article introduces a special issue of the …

Making links between micro and macro levels has been problematic in the social sciences,
and the literature in strategic management and organization theory is no exception. The …

We clarify that management scholars do not have a shared conceptualization of what the
terms micro and macro mean. Therefore, there is not one, but rather there are multiple micro …