![]() Moreover, how micro and macro issues can be integrated in strategy research is analyzed, indicating some appropriate research methods that can facilitate this integration. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the most relevant aspects of this emergent literature about microfoundations in strategy, carrying out a review of works published. ![]() Other issues located between individuals (micro) and firm (macro), such as organizational subunits, groups, teams or projects, may be considered as meso issues ( Foss et al., 2010 Mathieu and Chen, 2011). Therefore, the specific level of microfoundations is the individual level. There is nothing quite as elementary yet this elementary truth seems to have been lost in the increasing focus on structure, routines, capabilities, culture, institutions and various other collective conceptualizations in much of recent strategic organization research”. 441) in their seminal work: “Organizations are made up of individuals, and there is no organization without individuals. Microfoundations research focuses on the influence of individual actions and interactions on firm heterogeneity. We can follow researchers who are leading this emergent literature ( Abell et al., 2008 Felin and Foss, 2005 Felin et al., 2012 Foss, 2010, 2011) in order to specify the foundations of microfoundations of strategy. Thus, several fields have also considered micro elements (for example, in economics several research lines have been developed, such as microeconomics and neuroeconomics, and in finance a line of behavior finance has also been developed). This interest in micro issues is not exclusive to strategy but is part of a general process in the social sciences. The name of this research line is microfoundations of strategic management ( Felin and Foss, 2005 Foss, 2010). However, over the last few years, some authors have emphasized the importance of understanding collective strategic issues and research questions taking into account aspects at the individual level as independent variables. Strategy research tries to explain macro (firm) phenomena (typical dependent variables are firm performance or firm competitive advantages) on the basis of independent variables that are usually also collective firm variables ( firm resources and capabilities, organizational routines). The present article focuses on one of these questions, namely, why firms are different, or in other words, what factors maintain performance heterogeneity among competitors in spite of competition and imitation. For example, the four main questions of strategy proposed by Rumelt et al. ![]() Strategic management is considered to be a macro area. On the other hand, micro areas (for example, organizational behavior and human resources management) examine research questions at levels within organizations, mainly individual and group levels, although some studies use the organizational level to analyze their questions. On the one hand, macro management research domains (for example, strategic management and organization theory) focus their research questions and analysis mainly on the organizational or firm level, and even on interorganizational relationships. In the field of management and organizational sciences, specialization has led to a divide between the “macro” and “micro” areas ( Aguinis et al., 2011). Publication History: Formerly known as Cuadernos de Economía y Dirección de Empresa See more Open Access Our main concern is that articles have strong theoretical foundations, meet the highest analytical standards, and provide new insights that contribute to the better understanding of managerial phenomena. It is therefore a multidisciplinary journal inspired by diversity and open to methodological plurality. The journal was indexed in the SCCI in 2008, and it is published in English under the new title (BRQ) since 2014.įrom its very beginnings, BRQ provides widespread coverage of high quality research in a broad range of topics such as human resource management, organization theory, strategic management, corporate governance, managerial economics, marketing, finance, accounting and operations management. Born in 1998 as Cuadernos de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa (CEDE), it soon became the leading management publication in Spanish thanks to its strong academic reputation. BRQ Business Research Quarterly is the official journal of ACEDE (Spanish Academy of Management).
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