Progress by renaming old ideas? Ideas about ideas and their role and importance in understanding Business Networks

Authors: Ian Wilkinson

The Corsaro et al (2011) article, in a special IMP issue, involves a selective rewriting and recasting of the history ideas about management ideas that is unfair to others in and outside IMP, who have made significant contributions to our understanding of the role, importance and evolution of management ideas, cognitions and schemas and their links with behaviour. I do not believe that the renaming of old established ideas and claiming this as groundbreaking is scientific progress. I also critique the validity of the empirical research as being more a study of managers perceptions of academic terms than about the real fit between relationship structures and strategies.

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