Thinking about U: Theorizing and testing U‐ and inverted U‐shaped relationships in strategy research

By Richard F.J. Haans, Constant Pieters, Zi-Lin He. 2016

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Two Lines: A Valid Alternative to the Invalid Testing of U-Shaped Relationships With Quadratic Regressions (2018, neutral): “…setting the breakpoint for a two-line estimation, consists of the approach that has been previously proposed by several authors, including me, setting the breakpoint based on the quadratic regression's most extreme fitted value (Haans et al., 2016; Iribarren et al., 1996; Simonsohn & Nelson, 2014).”
• Making a marriage of materials: The role of gatekeepers and shepherds in the absorption of external knowledge and innovation performance (2017, background): “Identifying potentially useful external knowledge is essentially a search process that requires efforts from organization members to monitor, scan, and explore the wider technological and market environment (Hambrick, 1982; Levinthal and March, 1981).”
• Firm age and performance (2017, background): “2014; Wasserstein and Lazar 2016) and problems with regression estimation of U-shapes (Haans et al. 2016), graphical approaches give a richer description of the underlying age-related relationships, as well as showing the economic significance of the magnitudes of the effects.”
• The Effects of Digital Transformation on Firm Performance: Evidence from China’s Manufacturing Sector (2021, methodology): “Although the result meets the basic conditions of the U-shaped relationship, further verification is made with “Utest” developed by Lin and Mehlum [79], as recommended by Haans et al. [80].”
• Eight Simple Guidelines for Improved Understanding of Transformations and Nonlinear Effects (2021, background): “Because the inflection point of the U-shape curve falls within the range of the data (Haans et al., 2016), we would conclude that education has a negative effect on income for about the first 8 years of schooling, which does not sound realistic.”
• Enhancing Rigor in Quantitative Entrepreneurship Research (2019, background): “Care is also needed when hypothesizing and testing U- shaped or inverted Ushaped relationships (Haans et al., 2016).”