articleAcademy of Management ReviewOct 1, 2007Closed access

A set-theoretic approach to organizational configurations

University of Southern California · Southern California University for Professional Studies

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Abstract

I argue that research on organizational configurations has been limited by a mismatch between theory and methods and introduce set-theoretic methods as a viable alternative for overcoming this mismatch. I demonstrate the value of such methods for studying organizational configurations and discuss their applicability for examining equifinality and limited diversity among configurations, as well as their relevance to other research fields such as complementarities theory, complexity theory, and the resource-based view

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Keywords
  • Equifinality
  • Set (abstract data type)
  • Relevance (law)
  • Organizational behavior
  • Diversity (politics)
  • Computer science
  • Resource (disambiguation)
  • Management science
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Decent work and economic growth
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