{"id":115,"date":"2009-08-07T18:23:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T22:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/?p=115"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:35:43","slug":"the-case-for-formal-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"The case for formal theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ron Adner, Laszlo Polos, Michael D. Ryall, and Olav Sorenson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This special topic forum contains seven papers that illustrate many of the ways in which management researchers can use formal tools&#8211;mathematical methods, simulation, and formal logic&#8211;to develop management research. Here we offer an overview of these methods and their advantages as tools for research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/27759998\">Academy of Management Review<\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/27759998\">, 34 (2009): 201-208<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Adner, Laszlo Polos, Michael D. Ryall, and Olav Sorenson This special topic forum contains seven papers that illustrate many of the ways in which management researchers can use formal tools&#8211;mathematical methods, simulation, and formal logic&#8211;to develop management research. Here we offer an overview of these methods and their advantages as tools for research. Academy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15","tag-formal-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}