Using Outliers for Theory Building

IF 8.9 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Organizational Research Methods Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1177/1094428119898877

M. Gibbert, L. B. Nair, M. Weiss, M. Hoegl

引用次数: 27

Abstract

Outliers are promising candidates for theory building because they defy expected cause-and-effect relationships. Nonetheless, researchers often treat them as a nuisance and exclude them from further study. In fact, our analysis founds only two article using outliers for theory development in all quantitative articles published from 1993 to 2012 in six major management journals, and less than 5% cared to even mention them (relaying reasons for deleting them, mostly). To rectify this, we provide a roadmap for empirical researchers interested in theory building.

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使用异常值进行理论构建

异类是理论构建的有希望的候选者，因为他们无视预期的因果关系。尽管如此，研究人员经常将其视为一种麻烦，并将其排除在进一步研究之外。事实上，我们的分析发现，在1993年至2012年发表在六大管理期刊上的所有定量文章中，只有两篇文章使用异常值进行理论发展，只有不到5%的人愿意提及它们（主要是转发删除它们的原因）。为了纠正这一点，我们为对理论建设感兴趣的实证研究人员提供了一个路线图。

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3.20%

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