Schools of management thought: a text analysis of management books published in the first half of the twentieth century

Meta theories of technological innovation based on the analysis of classic texts

“…Prior scholarship suggests that examining the theoretical roots of key concepts and terms presents a more efficacious approach, as divergences in their respective ontological and theoretical origins may indicate a multiplicity of sources [ 13 ]. Existing technology affords us to undertake a meta-theoretical classification of the knowledge base in technological innovation [ 22 ]. Building upon prior literature [ 23 , 24 ], this study regards classic texts within a given field as the foundation for meta-theoretical classification.…”