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Theorizing

Highly Recommended

  • Lave, Charles A., and James G. March. 1993(1975). An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences. New York: University Press of America

Good examples of theorizing

  • Levitt and Dubner. 2005. Freakonomics. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Management/Sociology Scholars on Theory

  • Mayhew, B. 1980. Structuralism vs. individualism part 1: Shadow boxing in the dark. Social Forces :335-375. [^pdf]

  • Weick, K. E. (1995). What theory is not, theorizing is. Administrative Science Quarterly, 40(3), 385-390

  • Sutton, R. I., & Staw, B. M. (1995). What theory is not. Administrative Science Quarterly, 40(3), 371-384.

  • Weick, Karl E. 1979 The social psychology of organizing, 2nd edn. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

  • Van Maanen, J. (1995). Style as theory. Organization Science, 6(1), 133-143.

  • Stinchcombe, Arthur. 1968. “Fundamental Forms of Scientific Inference.” Pp. 15-28 in Constructing Social Theories. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World.

  • The measurement problem: A gap between the languages of theory and research by H. Blalock, ch. 1 in Methodology in Social Research.

  • Locke, E.A. and Latham, G.P. 2004. What should we do about motivation theory?: six recommendations for the twenty-first century. Academy of Management Review, 29(3): 388-403.

  • Bacharach, S.B. 1989. Organizational theories: Some criteria for evaluation. Academy of Management Review, 14(4):496-515.

  • Reynolds, P.D., 1971, Forms of theories, ch. 5 in A Primer in Theory Construction by  NY: Bobbs-Merrill

  • Stinchcombe, A. The Logic of Social Research. U of Chicago Press.

  • Arthur L. Stinchcombe. 1991. The Conditions of Fruitfulness of Theorizing About Mechanisms in Social Science. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 21, No. 3, 367-388

  • D.A. Whetten, "What Constitutes a Theoretical Contribution?," Academy of Management Review, Vol. 14, No. 4 (1989), pp. 490-495.

  • Ken G. Smith, Michael A. Hitt (eds). Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development: Especially Hambrick chapter.

  • Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure.

  • Lawrence, B. 1997. The Black Box of Organizational Demography. Organization Science, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb), pp. 1-22 [^pdf]

Philosophy of Science on Theory

  • Lakatos, I. (1971). History of science and its rational reconstruction. In R. C. Buck & R. S. Cohen (Eds.), PSA. Reidel

  • Imre Lakatos, "Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes" in The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes, edited by John Worrall and Gregory Currie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978), 91

  • Popper, Karl (1963), Conjectures and Refutations, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, UK, pp. 33–39. Reprinted in Theodore Schick (ed., 2000), Readings in the Philosophy of Science, Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View, Calif., pp. 9–13.

  • Kaplan, A. 1964 The Conduct of Iinquiry: Methodology for Social Science. San Francisco: Chandler.

Process and Variance Models

  • Mohr, L. 1982. Explaining Organizational Behavior. SF: Jossey-Bass.

  • Pfeffer. Review of Mohr, L. 1982. Explaining Organizational Behavior. SF: Jossey-Bass. Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Jun., 1983), pp. 321-325 [^pdf]

  • Fichman Variance explained: why size does not (always) matter (1999). Research in organizational behavior [pdf]

 

 
 

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