Experience suggests that strategy entails some interplay of choice, chance, and determinism as causal elements. Specifically, strategy is predicated on causality, or the principle that strategic choices have causes as well as consequences. Yet our discipline lacks a fundamental theory of...

We propose a theory to manage the uneasy relation between strategic choice, chance, and determinism (or inevitability). To do so, we locate arguments in intellectual history that have a clear bearing on this relation. We introduce and defend four conjectures that outline the relationship between...

Experience suggests that strategy entails some interplay of choice, chance, and determinism as causal elements. Specifically, strategy is predicated on causality, or the principle that strategic choices have causes as well as consequences. Yet our discipline lacks a fundamental theory of...

We propose a theory to manage the relation between strategic choice, chance and inevitability. To do so, we locate arguments in intellectual history and complexity science that have a clear bearing on this relation, and suggest that strategic choice, chance and inevitability are reciprocally...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the context and the content of the six papers that follow in this special issue on “New Forms of Organizational Ethnography”. Design/methodology/approach – This editorial explains the burgeoning interest in organizational ethnography over...

Reviews ten criticisms concerning business ethics: six of which question the development of the field in general; and four which challenge common teaching methods. By doing so, attempts to understand progress and aims to articulate the urgent need for a goal structure which can become the basis...