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Academy of Management Review, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Oct., 1989), pp. 496-
515 Published by: Academy of Management
• A theory is a statement of relations among concepts within a set of boundary assumptions and constraints. It
is no more than a linguistic device used to organize a complex empirical world. A collection of constructs and
variables does not necessarily make a theory.