Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

11-2020

Abstract

Drawing on the concept of a gale of creative destruction in a capitalistic economy, we argue that initiatives to assess the robustness of findings in the organizational literature should aim to simultaneously test competing ideas operating in the same theoretical space. In other words, replication efforts should seek not just to support or question the original findings, but also to replace them with revised, stronger theories with greater explanatory power. Achieving this will typically require adding new measures, conditions, and subject populations to research designs, in order to carry out conceptual tests of multiple theories in addition to directly replicating the original findings. To illustrate the value of the creative destruction approach for theory pruning in organizational scholarship, we describe recent replication initiatives re-examining culture and work morality, working parents’ reasoning

Keywords

Replication, Theory pruning, Theory testing, Conceptual replication, Cultural differences, Direct replication, Falsification, Gender discrimination, Hiring decisions, Protestant work ethic, Work values, Work-family conflict

Discipline

Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Science and Technology Studies | Social Psychology

Research Areas

Psychology

Publication

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volume

161

First Page

291

Last Page

309

ISSN

0749-5978

Identifier

10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.07.002

Publisher

Elsevier

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Authors

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Comments

The SMU authors were part of the Hiring Decisions Forecasting Collaboration (see Appendix of paper for full list of authors)

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.07.002

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