Tierney, W., Hardy, J.H., Ebersole, C.R. et al. (9 more authors) (2020) Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161. pp. 291-309. ISSN 0749-5978
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 about day care options, and gender discrimination in hiring decisions.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Replication; Theory pruning; Theory testing; Direct replication; Conceptual replication; Falsification; Hiring decisions; Gender discrimination; Work-family conflict; Cultural differences; Work values; Protestant work ethic |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2021 15:44 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2021 15:47 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.07.002 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:174827 |