“…MAN theorists also take advantage of (more or less) distant but stimulating sources of ideas on interdependence and interfirm cooperation (e.g., Aiken & Hage, 1968;Aldrich, 1976;Blau, 1964;Chamberlain, 1968;Dill, 1958;Emerson, 1962;Emery & Trist, 1965;Evan, 1966;Granovetter, 1985;Jacobs, 1974;Levine & White, 1961;Lincoln, 1982;Litwak & Hylton, 1962;Macauley, 1963;Macneil, 1980;Miles, Snow, & Pfeffer, 1974;Negandhi, 1975;Phillips, 1960;Telser, 1980;Van de Ven, 1976, Van de Ven & Koenig, 1975Warren, 1967;Whetten & Leung, 1979). Other inspirational fountainheads are mentioned in the overview of MAN theory's state-of-the-art (Section 4).…”