Welcome to the Academy of Management Review's Origins Series, where we ask, "Where does theory come from?" to demystify the theory-building process. In this interview series, authors of forthcoming AMR articles discuss how they got the ideas for their papers and share their process for developing new theory in the field of management. In this episode, Sharon Alvarez and Sybille Sachs discuss their AMR article titled "Where do stakeholders come from?"

Article web link: https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amr.2019.0077