On making causal claims: A review and recommendations

By John Antonakis, Samuel Bendahan, Philippe Jacquart, Rafael Lalive. 2010

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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Corporate Social Responsibility Performance, Incentives, and Learning Effects (2020, background): “1 3 would stem from sample selection bias, reverse causality or correlated omitted variables (Antonakis et al. 2010).”
When Does Charisma Matter for Top-Level Leaders? Effect of Attributional Ambiguity (2014, background): “Second, it is possible that the charisma of political candidates is determined by—rather than caused by—expected or previous electoral outcomes rending estimates inconsistent (Antonakis et al., 2010).”
Integrating Moderation and Mediation (2016, background): “However, unmeasured measurement error is just one form of endogeneity, and the researchers may choose to use instrumental variables to mitigate other sources of endogeneity (Antonakis et al., 2010).”
Interpersonal Power (2015, background): “…as a regressor because its effects will be confounded with the individual’s disposition or other unobserved factors; that is, unobserved variance in predicting power may be correlated with unobserved variance in predicting the outcomes of power—an omitted variable problem (Antonakis et al., 2010).”
Does it matter where your manager works? Comparing managerial work mode (traditional, telework, virtual) across subordinate work experiences and outcomes (2011, background): “We do not demonstrate causality or direction of effects given the cross-sectional nature of our data and its limitations (Antonakis et al., 2010).”
Assessing the trait theory of leadership using self and observer ratings of personality: The mediating role of contributions to group success☆ (2012, background): “…relationship between the mediator and outcome variables that can be interpreted causally can be derived by first identifying instrumental variables, or exogenous variables that predict the mediator variable and are related to the outcome variable only through the mediator (Antonakis et al., 2010).”
Integrated market and nonmarket strategies: Political campaign contributions around merger and acquisition events in the energy sector (2014, background): “The differencesin-differences methodology has gained recognition in management and economics research in recent years as it permits researchers to make stronger causal claims when there are concerns about important but omitted variables (Antonakis et al., 2010).”
Partial least squares path modeling: Time for some serious second thoughts (2016, background): “Aside from ignoring the fact that Antonakis et al. (2010) specifically cautioned against using PLS given its intractable problems, these statements are problematic because the 7 The fact that parametric significance tests may not be appropriate with PLS has been discussed at least since the early…”
Dealing with endogeneity bias: The generalized method of moments (GMM) for panel data (2018, methodology): “Consequently, the estimates are inconsistent and the error affects other variables involved (Antonakis et al., 2010; Antonakis et al., 2014; DeShon, 1998).”
Someone to Look Up To (2013, background): “…leader–follower values congruence, associated with transformational leadership (Jung & Avolio, 2000), has long been linked to positive outcomes, such as the quality of leader–member exchange (Ashkanasy & O’Connor, 1997) and follower job satisfaction and commitment (Meglino, Ravlin, & Adkins, 1989).”
A systematic review of executive coaching outcomes: Is it the journey or the destination that matters the most? (2018, background): “Two examples are the correlation of disturbances of potentially endogenous regressors in mediation models without testing for endogeneity or comparing a treatment group to non-equivalent groups (Antonakis et al., 2010).”