TOWARD A MODEL-CENTERED STRATEGY SCIENCE: More Experiments, Less History

* Substantially revised from a presentation at the Fourth International Conference on Competence-Based Management, Oslo, Norway, June 18–21, 1998, “Can Strategy be Better than Acupuncture: A Realist/Semantic Conception of Competence-Based Research.” I wish to give special thanks to Shelby Hunt and other conference participants for comments on the earlier version. I also need to recognize the many influences that Joel Baum, Kathleen Carley, Richard Gaylord, Dan Levinthal, Elaine Mosakowski, Ron Sanchez, and Jan Rivkin have had on the contents of this chapter. Needless to say, all remaining errors are my responsibility.