The field of management's devotion to theory: Too much of a good thing?

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1346-1352

  Hambrick, Donald C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749070162     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/AMJ.2007.28166119     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Baker, T., & Pollock, T. G. 2007. Making the marriage work: The benefits of strategy's takeover of entrepreneurship for strategic organization. Strategic Organization, 5(3): 297-312.
2. Brandt, A. M. 2007. The cigarette century: The rise, fall, and deadly persistence of the product that defined America. New York: Basic Books.
3. Colquitt, J. A., & Zapata-Phelan, C. P. 2007. Trends in theory building and theory testing: A five-decade study of Academy of Management Journal. Academy of Management Journal, 50: 1281-1303.
4. Faceio, M., Masulis, F., & McConnell, J. J. 2006. Political connections and corporate bailouts. Journal of Finance, 61: 2597-2635.
5. Fox, J. 2006. Self-deal? CEOs? Nahhh . . . . Fortune, November 27: 95-96.
6. Hambrick, D. C. 2004. The disintegration of strategic management: It's time to consolidate our gains. Strategic Organization, 2(1): 91-98.
7. Helfat, C. E. 2007. Stylized facts, empirical research and theory development in management. Strategic Organization, 5: 185-192.
8. Jaffe, A. B., Lerner, J., & Stern, S. (Eds.) 2006. Relation of the directors to the work and publications of the NBER. Innovation Policy and the Economy, 7: vii-viii.
9. Kacmar, K. M., & Whitfield, J. M. 2000. An additional rating method for journal articles in the field of management. Organizational Research Methods, 3: 392-406.
10. Miller, D. 2007. Paradigm prison, or in praise of atheoretic research. Strategic Organization, 5(2): 177-184.
11. Pfeffer, J., & Sutton, R. I. 2006. Hard facts, dangerous half-truths & total nonsense: Profiting from evidence-based management. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
12. Porter, L. W., & McKibbin, L. E. 1988. Management education and development: Drift or thrust into the 21st century? New York: McGraw Hill.
13. Rousseau, D. M. 2006. Presidential address: Is there such a thing as "evidence-based management"? Academy of Management Review, 31: 256-269.
14. Rynes, S. L. 2005. Taking stock and looking ahead. Academy of Management Journal, 48: 732-737.
15. Schmalensee, R. 1985. Do markets differ much? American Economic Review, 75: 341-351.
16. Sutton, R. I., & Staw, B. M. 1995. What theory is not. Administrative Science Quarterly, 40: 371-384.
17. Thompson, C. J., Rindfleisch, A., & Arsel, Z. 2006. Emotional branding and the strategic value of the doppelgänger brand image. Journal of Marketing, 70: 50-64.