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Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)

Joel A. C. Baum and Frank Dobbin, eds. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 2000. 410 pp. $82.50.

Sometimes it seems as if the field of strategic management is like a county that has no foreign policy or standing army and yet is periodically overrun by the armies of bordering states, viz, the disciplines of economics and sociology. What is it that attracts their attention? How much is strategy really worth dominating? Is the field perceived to be truly provocative or just an annoyance to be subjugated? Whatever the answers to these questions, it seems clear that over the past two

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