Stylized facts, empirical research and theory development in management

By Constance E. Helfat. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Building theory about theory building: What constitutes a theoretical contribution? Academy of Management Review, , . (2011, background): “Hambrick, in his critique of our field's overemphasis on theory, agrees with Helfat (2007) in proposing that we begin by generating practical facts " that can inform us as to what we need a theory for " (2007: 1349).”
The Presence of Something or the Absence of Nothing: Increasing Theoretical Precision in Management Research (2010, background): “Rather, we encourage researchers to draw from empirical regularities, or stylized facts (Helfat, 2007), which are replicable and make sense from a conceptual standpoint.”
Institutional Barriers and Industry Dynamics (2014, background): “This contributes to the recent call in the strategy field for more empirical regularities and stylized facts, which can be used to inform theory development and spur follow-up empirical studies (Helfat, 2007).”
Corporate foresight: An emerging field with a rich tradition (2015, background): “Scholars subscribing to this view expect that exercising these dynamic capabilities will permit organizations to renew their portfolio of strategic resources (Helfat, 2007).”
Ambiguity and its coping mechanisms in supply chains lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic and natural disasters (2020, methodology): “The empircal approach we adopt is studying facts without hypothesis testing, which has been argued can be useful to uncover ‘empircial regularities’ across different events and contexts (Helfat, 2007).”
Corporate Foresight: Its Three Roles in Enhancing the Innovation Capacity of a Firm (2011, unknown): “Case studies are particularly suited to ensuring a strong qualitative base on which to produce useful and valid theory, while reducing the risk of oversimplification associated particularly with quantitative research based on statistical modeling [98, 99].”
How Satisfied are the Self-Employed? A Life Domain View (2015, unknown): “Since our work is exploratory in nature, and we have few clear theoretical predictions in this area to guide our analysis, we argue that this area is worth investigating even if we do not develop detailed hypotheses about the direction of all effects (cf. Helfat 2007).”
An institution-based view of executive compensation: A multilevel meta-analytic test (2012, background): “performance and executive pay as a stylized fact (Helfat, 2007).”
Home Country Institutions and the Internationalization-Performance Relationship (2016, background): “First, we show that, in the aggregate, the positive linear association between internationalization and performance is modest and should be considered only as a “stylized fact” (Helfat, 2007).”
Routines Revisited: Exploring the Capabilities and Practice Perspectives (2011, background): “Second, we echo the recent advice of several senior scholars and believe that we should focus more on empirical phenomena rather than theory (Hambrick, 2007 ; Helfat, 2007 ; Oxley, Rivkin, & Ryall, 2010 ).”