TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donaldson,Lex
TI  - The Meta-Analytic Organization: Introducing Statistico-Organizational Theory
SN  - 9781315699424
AV  - HD31 -- .D568 2015eb 
U1  - 302.3/501 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Organization
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I. The Vision for a New Organizational Theory -- 1. Creating Organizational Theory From Methodological Principles -- Methodological Principles as Foundations for Organizational Theory -- The Theoretical Structure of Statistico-Organizational Theory -- Managerial Errors -- Overview of Statistico-Organizational Theory -- 2. The Deep Structure of Data -- Cognitive Positivism -- The Methodological Philosophy Underlying Meta-Analysis -- Hierarchy in Inquiry -- Continuities of New Theory With Prior Organizational Theory Research -- Part II. The Sources of Error -- 3. Managerial Errors From Small Numbers -- The Law of Small Numbers -- Inference and the Nature of What Is Counted -- Errors Caused by Small Organizational Size -- Weak Inference and Organizational Mortality -- International Comparative Advantage in Inference -- Relationships With Some Previous Organizational Theories -- Conclusions -- 4. Data Disaggregation and Managerial Errors -- The Fallacy of Disaggregation -- Cycles of Dysfunctional Control -- Inference and the Management of Human Resources -- The Problem of Aggregating Previous Inferences -- The Fallacy of Immediacy -- Organizational Structure for Inference -- Conclusions -- 5. Measurement Error of Profit -- The Problem of Measurement Error -- Measurement Error of Profit -- Measurement Error of Profitability Ratios -- Measurement Error Caused by Time Rates -- Measurement Error Caused by Control Variables -- Measurement Error Caused by Comparison With Standard -- Measurement Error in Contingency Misfit Analyses -- Low Reliability Not Readily Increased -- Conclusions -- 6. Quantifying the Measurement Error of Profit -- Formal Analysis of Measurement Error of Profit; Sensitivity of Profit Reliability -- Causal Model of the Determinants of Profit Reliability -- Measurement Error of Growth of Sales -- Conclusions -- 7. Measurement and Sampling Errors in the M-Form and Strategic Niches -- Errors in M-Form Divisional Profitability -- Errors in Niche Strategy Analysis -- Conclusions -- 8. Errors From Range Restriction and Extension -- Errors From Range Restriction in Organizational Management -- Errors From Range Restriction in Organizational Misfit and Fit -- Errors From Range Extension -- Conclusions -- 9. Confounding by the Performance Variable -- Severe Confounding Produced by Weak Spurious Correlations -- Confounding by Definitional Connections -- Confounding by Reciprocal Causality: Performance-Driven Organizational Change -- Confounds and Other Sources of Error -- Conclusions -- 10. Controlling for Confounding by Using Organizational Experiments -- Confounding as a Source of Error -- Experiments With Control Groups -- Experiments in Organizations -- Bias in Organizational Experiments -- Conclusions -- 11. Controlling for Confounding by Data Aggregation -- Summary -- Controlling Confounds by Averaging -- Confounding by Multiple Causes -- Confounding in Multiple Causes of Organizational Performance -- Confounds Readily Eliminated -- Controlling Confounds Through Averaging in Organizational Management -- Conclusions -- Part III. Integration -- 12. Errors Not Self-Correcting -- Repeated Operation of Errors -- Overall Error From Multiple Error Sources -- Conclusions -- 13. Equations of Statistico-Organizational Theory -- True Correlation -- Measurement Error -- Range Restriction and Range Extension -- Combination of Measurement Error and Range Restriction or Extension -- Confounding -- Overall Error Without Sampling Error -- Sampling Error -- Overall Error With Sampling Error -- Conclusions; 14. How Managers Can Reduce Errors -- Reducing Sampling Error -- Reducing Measurement Error -- Reducing Errors From Range Artifacts -- Reducing Errors From Confounding -- 15. Conclusions -- Situations That Lead to Errors -- Reflections and Limitations -- Appendix -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author
N2  - This book introduces students of strategy, HRM, and international business to a new, statistics-based organizational theory. Also drawing on psychometrics, the book shows how to infer cause and effect in light of errors managers typically make when examining data
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