This article explains that the Internet bubble was a unique and unfortunately missed opportunity for strategic management academia to vastly increase the field's perceived legitimacy. This author challenges strategic management scholars to acknowledge this failure, understand it, and reconsider their responsibilitiesto the public and to the field.
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