Anchors Aweigh? Then Time to Head Upstream Why we Need to Theorize “Mission” before “Drift”
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Keywords
Mission Drift; Multiple Missions; Firm’s Identity; Organization Theory;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- L21 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Business Objectives of the Firm
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HPE-2020-06-22 (History & Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-ORE-2020-06-22 (Operations Research)
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