This study reviews 191 empirical articles published from 1990 to 2020 in A* and A category journals recognized by the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC). We adopt theories-contexts-characters-methods (TCCM) protocol review present consolidated findings set future research agendas cross-border mergers acquisitions (CBA) activities. Our suggest that scholars have used institutional theory c...

Purpose – This paper aims to develop a new socio-cognitive theory of the normative personality of a plural agency like, for instance, an organisation or a political system. This cybernetic agency theory is connected to Bandura’s theory of psychosocial function. The agency is adaptive and has a normative personality that operates through three formative personality traits, the function of which ...

this commentary reviews a recent piece by burton and rycroft-malone on the use of resource based view (rbv) in healthcare organizations. it first outlines the core content of their piece. it then discusses their attempts to extend rbv to the analysis of large scale quality improvement efforts in healthcare. some critique is elaborated. the broader question of why rbv seems to be migrating into ...