Chapter 13 Rebuilding Relationships between Data, Method, and Theories

• Autor principal: Cucina, Jeffrey M. (auth)
• Outros Autores: Nester, Mary Anne (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Taylor & Francis 2022
• Assuntos: Organizational theory & behaviour; Psychology; Occupational & industrial psychology; organizational research; SIOP; SIOP Organizational Frontiers; SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series; organizational frontiers; organizations; Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; I/O psychology
• Acesso em linha: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Resumo

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.

Descrição Física

1 electronic resource (43 p.)

ISBN

9781003015000-17
9780367857707
9780367857646

Acesso

Open Access