We clarify differences among moderation, partial mediation, and full mediation and identify
methodological problems related to moderation and mediation from a review of articles in …

This Short Methodological Report builds on research about moderation practices by
focusing on a marginal effects approach to interpreting how a main effect is informed by the …

Usage of models integrating mediation and moderation is on the rise in the organizational
sciences. While moderation and mediation are fairly well understood by themselves …

Moderator variables are widely hypothesized and studied in the organizational sciences, but
the empirical track record of moderator variable studies is very discouraging. These studies …

Mediation as a theory testing approach has witnessed considerable adoption among
Operations Management (OM) researchers. Although mediation-testing methods have …

Many theories in management, psychology, and other disciplines rely on moderating
variables: those which affect the strength or nature of the relationship between two other …

It is increasingly common to test hypotheses combining moderation and mediation.
Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been the favored approach to testing mediation …

Due to the nature of the data employed and of the concepts tested, standard tests for
mediating variables in management research can often violate an assumption on which …

The authors review and critique the conduct and reporting of mediation analyses in 409
studies published in five leading organization studies journals over the past 25 years. The …

Marketing researchers frequently conduct mediation analysis to enrich their understandingof
a focal causal relationship by examiningits underlying mechanism. The main purposeof this …