METHODOLOGICAL FIT IN MANAGEMENT FIELD RESEARCH.

By Amy C. Edmondson, S. McManus. 2007

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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MODELING HOW TO GROW: AN INDUCTIVE EXAMINATION OF HUMBLE LEADER BEHAVIORS, CONTINGENCIES, AND OUTCOMES (2012, methodology): “Because leadership is a highly complex phenomenon steeped in contextual and symbolic interpretations (Conger, 1998) and because new organizational topics benefit from a qualitative foundation (Edmondson & McManus, 2007), we chose a qualitative research design.”
The formation and interplay of social capital in crowdfunded social ventures (2014, background): “Methodological considerations and code building Edmondson and Mcmanus (2007) identify ‘methodological fit’ in management research based upon the maturity level of the existing underlying theory.”
New realities: a systematic literature review on virtual reality and augmented reality in tourism research (2019, positive): “The current lack of substantive and theory-based research in VR/AR tourism studies can be explained by the nature of the ﬁ eld which is still very much in the exploratory stage with a lack of established theories (Edmondson & McManus, 2007).”
Local Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Public–Private Collaborative Partnerships in Fostering Regional Entrepreneurship (2018, neutral): “The exploratory research questions and the contextual features associated with emerging economies determined our choice of a qualitative research method aimed at gaining a nuanced understanding of local government and collaborative partnership (Edmondson & McManus, 2007).”
Using Photographs to Research Organizations: Evidence, Considerations, and Application in a Field Study (2012, background): “We focus on three areas of organizational research related to the management discipline in which photographic methods could address immediate theory development needs (Edmondson & McManus, 2007): strategic consensus, organizational identity, and strategizing activities and practice.”
Professional Image Maintenance: How Women Navigate Pregnancy in the Workplace (2015, methodology): “The mixed method design we chose is the most appropriate when building on prior theory to propose new constructs and investigate their impact on established constructs (i.e., expanding intermediate theory; Edmondson & McManus, 2007).”
Service Growth in Product Firms: Past, Present, and Future (2017, background): “According to Edmondson and McManus (2007) what is already known and what is being explored (i.e., the research question) should drive the research strategy, and that there needs to be a fit between the research question and the data and methods used to answer the question.”
How Do Firms Adapt to Discontinuous Change? Bridging the Dynamic Capabilities and Ambidexterity Perspectives (2016, background): “”(18) Furthermore, Edmondson and McManus argue that such inductive theory development is most appropriate for developing insights about a theoretically novel phenomenon.(19)”
Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award—“Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited” Ten Years Later (2015, background): “…is itself in an era of ferment; we might make more progress moving back from mature theory and research to more nascent theory and research (e.g., Edmondson & McManus, 2007).2 It may be that the focus on “contributions to theory” required for publishing research in our major journals exacerbates…”
Let's Dance! Elastic Coordination in Creative Group Work: A Qualitative Study of Modern Dancers (2014, background): “…interviews indicated that dynamics between autonomy and constraints might be critical for understanding the coordination of creative work, and that modern dance groups aligned nicely with our theoretical sampling needs, providing a strong sense of “methodological fit” (Edmondson & McManus, 2007).”
Recovery at Work: Understanding the Restorative Side of “Depleting” Client Interactions (2012, methodology): “Viewing caregiver-client interactions through the episodic perspective put forth by Beal et al. (2006, 2005) and adopting research methods capturing this variation would provide an enhanced methodological fit (Edmondson & McManus, 2007).”