Concept Fallibility in Organizational Science
Academy of Management ReviewPublished 1 October 1989
Chimezie A. B. Osigweh Yg
Citations181
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The notions of concept traveling and concept stretching are introduced, a clear treatment of various conceptual abstraction levels are provided, and the negation approach is articulated and offered.
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This paper extends existing social and behavioral science knowledge by placing explicit emphasis on concept-formation issues as they pertain to organizational science. Moreover, the paper (a) introduces in a detailed manner the notions of concept traveling and concept stretching, (b) provides a clear treatment of various conceptual abstraction levels, (c) articulates and offers the negation approach, and (d) shows how to attain the abstraction levels via the use of the negation approach to concept formation.
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