Perspective—Chance Explanations in the Management Sciences
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Volume 26, Issue 3
May-June 2015
Pages 633-940
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Jerker Denrell, Christina Fang, Chengwei Liu (2014) Perspective—Chance Explanations in the Management Sciences. Organization Science 26(3):923-940.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2014.0946
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The authors are grateful for comments from Stefan Jonsson, Balázs Kovács, Gaël Le Mens, Dan Levinthal, James March, Thomas Powell, Jochen Runde, Bill Starbuck, Hossam Zeitoun, and seminar participants at INSEAD and Uppsala University, as well as the reviewers and senior editor Phanish Puranam. This research was partially supported by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust [Grant SRG 34963].
