Data, Methods and Theory in the Organizational Sciences :
A New Synthesis

Data, Methods and Theory in the Organizational Sciences :
A New Synthesis

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologypsychology

I/O psychology

In both Management and I/O Psychology, contributions to theory remain an important, and in many cases, sole criterion for evaluating submissions to top journals. In many ways, the definition of theory and the primacy of theory in the organizational sciences is an outlier; in most sciences, articles rarely even mention theories, much less build themselves around advancing theory. We propose that the classic description of the scientific methods provides a better guide to understanding the relationships between data, methods and theory than our current model, which often starts and ends with proposing a theory, which may never again be referenced or tested. We describe a pyramid of types of evidence that is useful for assessing the reliability and worth of particular sorts of data and show how this approach to evidence informs the scientific method and assists in identifying and building useful theories.

Murphy, Kevin (editor)

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52884

Taylor & Francis

2022

Prasetyo Adi Nugroho

Aguinis, H., Bradley, K. J., & Broderson, A. (2014). Industrial-organizational psychologists in business schools: Brain drain or eye opener? Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 7(3),
284–303.

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DOI : 10.4324/9781003015000