The Too-Much-of-a-Good-Thing Effect in Management

By J. Pierce, Herman Aguinis. 2013

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

Entrepreneurial self-efficacy: A systematic review of the literature on its theoretical foundations, measurement, antecedents, and outcomes, and an agenda for future research (2019, background): “Drawing on the meta-theoretical principle of ‘the too-much-of-a-good-thing effect’ (Pierce & Aguinis, 2013), which suggests that levels of typically beneficial antecedents reach tipping points, after which their relationships with positive outcomes move from being linear and positive to curvilinear…”
Never Too Much? The Curvilinear Relationship Between Empowering Leadership and Task Performance (2017, methodology): “…study empirically examines the curvilinear relationship (inverted U-shape) between empowering leadership and employees’ task performance by applying a meta-theoretical principle, the “Too-Much-of-a-Good-Thing” (TMGT) effect, as an overarching framework to support our idea (Pierce & Aguinis, 2013).”
The Service–Profit Chain: A Meta-Analytic Test of a Comprehensive Theoretical Framework (2017, background): “That is, employee satisfaction and external service quality have both positive and negative effects, and we find evidence of “toomuch-of-a-good-thing” effects within the SPC framework (Pierce and Aguinis 2013).”
Self-Compassion When Coping With Venture Obstacles: Loving-Kindness Meditation and Entrepreneurial Fear of Failure (2019, background): “Self- compassion may also be subject to a “to- much- of- a- good- thing effect” (Pierce & Aguinis, 2013).”
I get by with a little help from my supervisor: Creative-idea generation, idea implementation, and perceived supervisor support (2014, background): “By assuming a quadratic relationship, our research represents an important departure from traditional approaches that followed the “more is better” assumption and neglected the need to discuss balance between deficiency and excess (Pierce & Aguinis, 2013).”
When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity (2020, positive): “Our findings suggest that the timing of progress matters for effective incubation, thereby extending knowledge about curvilinear relationships (Grant & Schwartz, 2011; Pierce & Aguinis, 2013).”