Building a Better Management Science Through Theory Testing and Refinement

Abstract

Theory and theory testing are the underpinnings of Management research. This symposium consists of four presentations, each of which takes a critical stance on how Management scholars build and refine theories. Papers surrounding this topic may be widely applicable to a plethora of interest groups and subdisciplines, and the papers themselves may come from a variety of perspectives, as they will in this session. Within each presentation, authors review previous literature and offer best practices and insights to the issues plaguing Management literature. Rethinking Abduction in Theory Building Presenter: Robert Folger; U. of Central Florida Presenter: Christopher M. Stein; Siena College Presenter: Nicholas Connor Andriese; U. of Central Florida Toward a Scholarship of Optimal and Instantiable Theories of Action Presenter: Fabrice Cavarretta; ESSEC Business School Presenter: Erwan Lamy; ESCP Business School Extending Boundaries of Time-To-Event Analysis with Bathtub Curve and TTT Statistics Presenter: Oleksandr Tsaruk; West Virginia U. Presenter: Abhishek Srivastava; West Virginia U. The Value of Management Theory: A Constructive Replication of Miner (2003) Presenter: Emily Redler; U. of North Carolina, Charlotte Presenter: Natalie Wilde; U. of North Carolina at Charlotte Presenter: Kailey Meyer; - Presenter: Janaki Gooty; U. of North Carolina, Charlotte