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From the early-1950s on, F.A. Hayek was concerned with the development of a methodology of sciences that study systems of complex phenomena. Hayek argued that the knowledge that can be acquired about such systems is, in virtue of their complexity (and the comparatively narrow boundaries of human...
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In a series of joint papers, Teppo Felin and Nicolai J. Foss recently launched a microfoundations project in the field of strategic management. Felin and Foss observe that extant explanations in strategic management are predominantly collectivist or macro. Routines and organizational...
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Traditional accounts of explanation fail to illuminate the explanatory relevance of “models that are descriptively … false” in the sense that the regularities they entail fail to obtain. In this paper, I propose an account of explanation …, which I call ‘explanation by concretization’, that serves to explicate the explanatory relevance of such models. Starting …
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