Building Better Theory: Time and The Specification of When Things Happen

By Terence R. Mitchell, Lawrence R. James. 2001

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Searching for Outcomes of Leadership: A 25-Year Review (2011, background): “In asserting that leadership is causing a particular criterion, it is important to consider effects at various time frames according to theory and often with appropriate temporal separation (Mitchell & James, 2001).”
Experience Sampling Methods: A Discussion of Critical Trends and Considerations for Scholarly Advancement (2018, background): “As has been discussed by several authors (George & Jones, 2000; Mitchell & James, 2001; Monge, 1990), many important temporal dynamics are associated with constructs 972 Organizational Research Methods 22(4) that change over time, including the frequency and magnitude of change, presence of trends…”
Consistency Matters! How and When Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect Employees’ Organizational Identification? (2016, methodology): “To determine how many months should separate each measurement time in our study, we followed Mitchell and James’ (2001) recommendation to rely on previous empirical literature to identify common practices in this regard.”
Impact of Stressors on Employee Performance: Moderating Role of Big Five Traits (2015, background): “Conscientious is much important for achieving excellence in organization Moberg (1997). Chen, Casper, and Cortina (2001) also found a stronger relationship between conscientiousness and performance in a complicated job.”
Bouncing back from psychological contract breach: How commitment recovers over time (2016, methodology): “This methodology is consistent with more general exhortations that theory and research improves if we specify when things happen (Mitchell & James, 2001).”
Diary Studies in Organizational Research: An Introduction and Some Practical Recommendations (2010, background): “These diverse findings point to the fact that theories in work and organizational psychology are often mute about the timing of processes and developments (Mitchell & James, 2001).”
How do occupational stressor-strain effects vary with time? A review and meta-analysis of the relevance of time lags in longitudinal studies (2014, background): “In the organizational sciences there has been a burgeoning interest in the role of time in organizationally-relevant variables (Mitchell & James, 2001).”