Ordinary Theorists in Mixed Industries
认为实践者的集体知识（以叙事形式表达并转化为认知地图）对理论构建有贡献，讨论了其认识论基础，并报告了将这种集体实践知识与主流国际竞争动力学理论进行比较的应用。
In this article, the collective knowledge of practitioners, expressed in narratives and translated into a rigorous form (cognitive maps) is considered as a useful contribution to theory building. The article discusses the epistemic foundations of this pragmatic approach to organization studies, presents a method for analyzing and integrating the knowledge of practitioners, and reports an application in which such collective practical knowledge is compared to mainstream theories of the dynamics of international competition