Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development

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The development of goal setting theory: A half century retrospective. (2019, background): “Because of Herzberg, we were acutely aware of the dangers of premature theorizing (Locke, 1976, 2007; Locke & Latham, 2005).”
Reconsidering Theoretical Progress in Organizational and Management Research (2010, background): “Our recognition of the importance of theory has generated volumes devoted to theory development (Smith & Hitt, 2005), guidelines for building and evaluating theory (Bacharach, 1989; Dubin, 1976; Sutton & Staw, 1995; Weick, 1995; Whetten, 1989), prescriptions for developing theory using simulations…”
The Fallacy of Formative Measurement (2011, background): “The entities that constructs describe are real in the sense that they have the capacity to influence one another, as explained by theoretical models that guide research (Bacharach, 1989; Dubin, 1976; Smith & Hitt, 2005).”
Team Reflexivity and Innovation (2015, methodology): “We therefore concluded that it was important either to sample from different organizations or to choose work demands that all the teams have to deal with, while providing sufficient variance between the teams to be able to observe the expected relationships (Oldham & Hackman, 2005).”