The hegemonic ambiguity of big concepts in organization studies
提出“hembigs”概念，指那些被过度使用、含义模糊且边界不清的流行学术概念，并以领导力、战略和制度为例说明问题，提出缓解方法。
The use of concepts is a vital part of the research process. Many researchers overexploit popular concepts by adding more and more vague and poorly defined meanings to them, thereby making their boundaries unclear and the concepts increasingly unwieldy. We will refer to these types of concepts as hembigs – an acronym for hegemonic, ambiguous, big concepts. The article demonstrates the problem in three domains: leadership, strategy and institution. It suggests ways to mitigate the problems with dominant scientific concepts, overloaded with more or less incoherent meanings.