Stimulating Theory Creation through Isolation, Confrontation and Integration: The Case of French Convention Theory.

Provost, Anne-Catherine;Rasheed, Abdul A.;Priem, Richard
(2010) 2010 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, “Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research” — Location: Montreal, Canada (6.August.2010)

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Geographically- or otherwise-isolated scholarly communities can benefit from closure that allows them to nurture and exploit their existing theories. Confrontations are necessary among theories representing different scholarly communities, however, for consistent creation of new theories. We use French Convention Theory as an example theory that, developed in relative isolation, can productively confront both economics-based and behaviorally-based North American organization theories and thereby create new theory. We discuss the benefits and implications of such theory confrontations.
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  • Louvain School of ManagementAccounting & Finance
  • FUCaMSciences de gestion
  • University of Texas at ArlingtonCollege of Business Administration
  • The University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeSchool of Business Administration

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Provost, A.-C., Rasheed, A. A., & Priem, R. (2010). Stimulating Theory Creation through Isolation, Confrontation and Integration: The Case of French Convention Theory. 2010 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, “Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research”, Montreal, Canada. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/250461