Building theory about theory building: What constitutes a theoretical contribution? Academy of Management Review, , .

By Kevin G. Corley, Dennis A. Gioia. 2011

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Maneuvering in poor visibility : How firms play the ecosystem game when uncertainty is high (2017, methodology): “We integrated prior concepts from the literature and the ones we discovered into a novel framework to reveal their relational dynamicsduring de novo ecosystem creation (Corley & Gioia, 2011).”
A Double-Edged Sword? Exploring the Curvilinear Relationship Between Organizational Tenure Diversity and Team Innovation: The Moderating Role of Team-Oriented HR Practices (2009, positive): “Testing the moderating effects of team-oriented HR practices contributes to the diversity theory because it helps advance our understanding of the boundary conditions of the diversity– innovation relationship (Hollenbeck et al., 2004; Mannix & Neale, 2005; Whetten, 1989).”
Big data analytics in logistics and supply chain management: Certain investigations for research and applications (2016, neutral): “Further testing of our suggestions may build new knowledge and robust theories (Corley and Gioia, 2011).”
Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research (2013, background): “Yet these time-honored precepts, as widely applicable as they might be and as undeniably useful as they often are, do not encourage the kind of originality we would most like to see in our theorizing (Corley & Gioia, 2011).”
Crafting Sustainable Development Solutions: Frugal Innovations of Grassroots Entrepreneurs (2016, background): “increasingly used among management and entrepreneurship scholars [115,116].”
Simplexity: Sensemaking, organizing and storytelling for our time (2012, background): “Corley and Gioia (2011) offer a critique of the dominant story, why it is a professionally self-defeating story and how it can be changed.”
Perceived uncertainty and behavioral logic: Temporality and unanticipated consequences in the new venture creation process (2019, background): “yield two important implications for entrepreneurship scholars at both theoretical and operational levels (Corley and Gioia, 2011).”
Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields: Trading off Compliance and Achievement in Sustainability Standard Adoption (2014, background): “(Suddaby, 2012; Corley & Gioia, 2011), I have sought to advance conceptual ideas that can benefit practitioners by deconstructing why institutional entrepreneurs in relatively opaque fields face inherent tensions when trying to achieve both adopter compliance and goal achievement and by indicating…”
Systematicity in Organizational Research Literature Reviews: A Framework and Assessment (2021, background): “Both within and across these development routes, generativity can vary on a continuum characterized by “incremental” versus “revelatory” (i.e., interesting, surprising, frame-breaking; Corley & Gioia, 2011).”
The theory contribution of case study research designs (2017, background): “Most of the debate concerning what a theory is comprises three basic elements (Alvesson and Kärreman 2007; Bacharach 1989; Dubin 1978; Kaplan 1998; Suddaby 2010; Weick 1989, 1995; Whetten 1989).”
Food and Gastronomy for Sustainable Place Development: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Different Theoretical Approaches (2017, background): “This review article was generated by the need to offer a theoretical contribution that is both relevant to academia and useful to practitioners and policymakers in the field addressing real-world problems [19].”
Transformational Leadership and Performance Across Criteria and Levels: A Meta-Analytic Review of 25 Years of Research (2011, background): “This research has the potential to clarify the precise ways in which transformational leadership impacts performance and may increase the practical utility of transformational leadership theory (Corley & Gioia, 2011).”
Moving Forward: Developing Theoretical Contributions in Management Studies (2014, background): “As such, it may substantially expand a literature by overwriting prior theory and by redirecting a literature along a new and different path (Corley and Gioia, 2011).”
The extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2): A systematic literature review and theory evaluation (2021, background): “The degree of importance of focal phenomenon in a theory to both practitioners and researchers is the single most important factor in determining the importance/utility of a theory (Corley & Gioia, 2011; Weber, 2012).”