First decade of organizational research methods: Trends in design, measurement, and data-analysis topics

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-112

  Aguinis, Herman ^a   Pierce, Charles A ^b   Bosco, Frank A ^b   Muslin, Ivan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Data analysis; Measurement; Methods training; Organizational research; Qualitative methods; Quantitative methods; Research design; Theory and method

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849129892     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428108322641     Document Type: Article

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