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Denrell, Jerker and Kovacs, Balazs (2020) The ecology of management concepts. Strategy Science, 5 (4). pp. 293-368. doi:10.1287/stsc.2020.0108 ISSN 2333-2050.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2020.0108
Abstract
How does the popularity of a concept depend on how it contrasts with and complements existing concepts? We argue that being similar to existing concepts, being located in a popular domain, and being combined with similar existing concepts are important for gaining attention early on but less important and even negative for sustaining popularity. To examine this question, we focus on the rise and fall of management concepts. We analyze data on the rise and fall of keywords in the Harvard Business Review between 1922 and 2010. Multiple tests confirm our hypotheses. The implication is that lessons learned from studies of popular concepts can be misleading as guides for how to make novel concepts popular.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Management , Ecology -- Methodology, Ecology | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Strategy Science | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (I N F O R M S) | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2333-2050 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 5 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 293-368 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1287/stsc.2020.0108 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 May 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 May 2020 | ||||||||
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