TY - CHAP
T1 - AN ASSESSMENT OF RESEARCH DESIGNS IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
T2 - THE FREQUENCY OF THREATS TO INTERNAL VALIDITY
AU - Bergh, Don D.
AU - Hanke, Ralph
AU - Balkundi, Prasad
AU - Brown, Michael
AU - Chen, Xianghong
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The authors content analyze 76 empirical Strategic Management Journal articles to determine how studies control for threats to internal validity, a common source of flaws in research designs. Results indicate that most studies fail to control for one or more threats to internal validity. In particular, selection effects were the most frequently appearing threat, followed by history effects, ambiguity about the direction of causal inference, changing data sources and subject mortality. In general, the results suggest that strategy researchers need to more carefully account for threats to the internal validity of their research designs. Suggestions for addressing these problems are provided.
AB - The authors content analyze 76 empirical Strategic Management Journal articles to determine how studies control for threats to internal validity, a common source of flaws in research designs. Results indicate that most studies fail to control for one or more threats to internal validity. In particular, selection effects were the most frequently appearing threat, followed by history effects, ambiguity about the direction of causal inference, changing data sources and subject mortality. In general, the results suggest that strategy researchers need to more carefully account for threats to the internal validity of their research designs. Suggestions for addressing these problems are provided.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/36148980010
U2 - 10.1016/S1479-8387(04)01112-9
DO - 10.1016/S1479-8387(04)01112-9
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:36148980010
SN - 0762310510
SN - 9780762310517
T3 - Research Methodology in Strategy and Management
SP - 347
EP - 363
BT - Research Methodology in Strategy and Management
PB - Elsevier BV
ER -