Theories of Performance: A Review and Integration

IF 14.3 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS
Jason D. Marshall, Herman Aguinis, Jose R. Beltran
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Performance is a critical construct across micro and macro management subfields (e.g., organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, strategic management). However, there is little consensus on how performance should be conceptualized. There are parallel and siloed research streams addressing firm- and individual-level performance, and a never-ending search for seemingly novel theories without satisfactory progress toward integrating them. To address these challenges, we systematically integrated performance-related theories. We reviewed 15,535 journal articles published in 44 journals from 1946 to 2022 and uncovered 239 unique performance-related theories that we integrated through six meta-theoretical constructs: firm-level (1) capabilities, (2) structures, and (3) transactions; and individual-level (4) knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics, (5) roles, and (6) relationships. Moreover, we discovered that these meta-theoretical constructs are isomorphic across levels, which resulted in the CORE model of performance applicable at both levels of analysis: Performance (P) = Capacity (C) + Opportunity (O) + Relevant Exchanges (RE). We describe how the CORE performance model will enable researchers to stop working in theoretical silos, aiming for illusory theoretical contributions and thinking dichotomously about performance as processes or outcomes, and to start considering “the big picture” of performance, exploring the performance system, and considering how performance processes affect performance outcomes (and vice versa).
绩效理论:回顾与整合
绩效是微观和宏观管理子领域(如组织行为学、企业家精神、战略管理)的一个重要概念。然而,在如何将绩效概念化方面却鲜有共识。针对企业和个人层面绩效的研究并行不悖、各自为政,对看似新颖的理论的探索永无止境,但在整合这些理论方面却没有取得令人满意的进展。为了应对这些挑战,我们系统地整合了与绩效相关的理论。我们查阅了 1946 年至 2022 年期间在 44 种期刊上发表的 15,535 篇文章,发现了 239 个独特的绩效相关理论,并通过六个元理论构建对其进行了整合:企业层面的(1)能力、(2)结构和(3)交易;个人层面的(4)知识、技能、能力和其他特征、(5)角色和(6)关系。此外,我们还发现,这些元理论建构在不同层面之间是同构的,从而形成了适用于两个分析层面的 CORE 绩效模型:绩效 (P) = 能力 (C) + 机会 (O) + 相关交流 (RE)。我们介绍了 CORE 绩效模型如何使研究人员不再各自为政,追求虚幻的理论贡献,将绩效二分为过程或结果,而是开始考虑绩效的 "全局",探索绩效系统,并考虑绩效过程如何影响绩效结果(反之亦然)。
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36.00
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期刊介绍: The mission of the Academy of Management Annals (Annals) is to publish up-to-date, in-depth and integrative reviews of research advances in management. Often called "reviews with an attitude," Annals papers summarize and/or challenge established assumptions and concepts, pinpoint problems and factual errors, inspire discussions, and illuminate possible avenues for further study. Reviews published in Annals move above and beyond descriptions of the field–they motivate conceptual integration and set agendas for future research.
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