The Neglected Science and Art of Quasi-Experimentation

By Adam M. Grant, Toby D. Wall. 2009

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability

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Citations in the corpus

Enhancing Rigor in Quantitative Entrepreneurship Research (2019, methodology): “…designs used in entrepreneurship research can be classified as within-subject vs. between-subject designs, the latter of which can either be controlled experiments (random assignment of subjects) or quasi-experiments (non-random assignment of subjects; Grant & Wall, 2009; Hsu et al., 2017).”
A Pilot Test of Transformational Leadership Training for Sports Coaches: Impact on the Developmental Experiences of Adolescent Athletes (2013, background): “The benefit of quasi-experimental research is that it enables the strengthening of causal inferences while maintaining internal and external validity without interrupting ‘real life’ through intrusive intervention and is therefore the most appropriate form of intervention for this study [29-30].”
On doing relevant and rigorous experiments: Review and recommendations (2018, background): “…are often ill-defined and practical, financial and/or ethical issues make it hard to randomly allocate entities, whether people, groups, or organizations to different conditions and managers might be reluctant to apply experimental methods in their own teams (e.g., Eden, 2017; Grant & Wall, 2009).”
JOB TITLES AS IDENTITY BADGES: HOW SELF-REFLECTIVE TITLES CAN REDUCE EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION (2014, background): “…fact that treatment and pure control groups differ not only in terms of the content of the intervention, but also the process of carrying out the intervention, which makes it difficult to identify the causal ingredients responsible for observed effects (Cook & Campbell, 1979; Grant & Wall, 2009).”
Fear of failure as a mediator of the relationship between obstacles and nascent entrepreneurial activity—An experimental approach ☆ (2017, background): “The chosen experimental approach enables causal conclusions to be drawn on the impact of unobservable psychological processes on entrepreneurial activity (Hsu et al., 2015), and thus deepens the understanding of such psychological processes (Grant and Wall, 2008).”
Employee Green Behavior (2015, background): “Alternatively, quasi-experimental field studies also allow for causal inferences when methodological controls such as random assignment and manipulations are not possible (Grant & Wall, 2009).”