Making sense of social research: how useful is the Hawthorne Effect?

By M. Chiesa, S. Hobbs. 2008

150 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Psychology, Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0453b7652d5dfa77ec6f672a9df483c236224cc6

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In General Psychology

1. David Oswald
2. Simon D. Smith
3. Fred Sherratt

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. David Oswald
2. Simon D. Smith
3. Fred Sherratt

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. David Oswald
2. Simon D. Smith
3. J. Mccambridge
4. Fred Sherratt

Citations in the corpus

• Systematic review of the Hawthorne effect: New concepts are needed to study research participation effects (2014, background): “A large literature and repeated controversies have evolved over many decades as to the nature of the Hawthorne effect [5,10].”
• Handling the Hawthorne effect: The challenges surrounding a participant observer (2014, methodology): “Authors, such as Olson et al. (2004) and Chiesa and Hobbs (2008), have argued that the term ‘Hawthorne effect’ is often used inappropriately and refers to such a wide range and often contradictory phenomena.”