Experiments in strategy research: A critical review and future research opportunities

MT Bolinger, MA Josefy, R Stevenson… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We review extant experimental work in strategic management and argue that experiments
constitute an underused methodology that has significant potential. We examine and …

A review of experimental research on organizational trust

O Schilke, A Powell, ME Schweitzer - Journal of Trust Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Trust profoundly shapes organisational, group, and dyadic outcomes. Reflecting its
importance, a substantial and growing body of scholarship has investigated the topic of trust …

Primer for Experimental Methods in Organization Theory

SS Levine, O Schilke, O Kacperczyk… - Organization …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Experiments have long played a crucial role in various scientific disciplines and have been
gaining ground in organization theory, where they add unique value by establishing …

The dual function of organizational structure: Aggregating and shaping individuals' votes

H Piezunka, O Schilke - Organization Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
How do organizational structures influence organizational decision making? This article
reveals organizational structures' dual function: they both (1) aggregate and (2) shape …

He's overqualified, she's highly committed: Qualification signals and gendered assumptions about job candidate commitment

EL Campbell, O Hahl - Organization Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Evidence suggests that possessing more qualifications than is necessary for a job (ie,
overqualification) negatively impacts job candidates' outcomes. However, unfair discounting …

Learning-by-moving: Can reconfiguring spatial proximity between organizational members promote individual-level exploration?

S Lee - Organization Science, 2019 - pubsonline.informs.org
This research proposes that individual-level exploration can be promoted by reconfiguring
the spatial proximity between organizational members' workspaces. To test this idea, I …

Experimental studies in family business research

M Lude, R Prügl - Journal of Family Business Strategy, 2021 - Elsevier
Experimental studies are at the heart of scientific inquiry but have yet to gain their due
recognition in the methodological repertoire of family business researchers. In this article we …

The power to reward vs. the power to punish: The influence of power framing on individual-level exploration

JB Evans, O Schilke - Organization Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
This article adopts a relational perspective to demonstrate that characteristics of the dyadic
relationship between supervisors and their employees are critical to understanding …

Towards a theory of micro-institutional processes: Forgotten roots, links to social-psychological research, and new ideas

LG Zucker, O Schilke - Microfoundations of institutions, 2019 - emerald.com
In this chapter, the authors weave together a set of ideas that lead us closer to a more
general institutional theory–one that embraces multiple levels of analysis, including the …

Stretch goals, factual/counterfactual reflection strategies, and firm performance

MM Yang - Journal of Management Studies, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Popular business press and academic publications have advocated for stretch goals,
particularly to enhance firm performance. The general assumption is that stretch goals can …