Men and Women of the Corporation

Social Psychology of Organizations

Individualism and collectivism

Social scientists often estimate models from correlational data, where the independent variable has not been exogenously manipulated; they also make implicit or explicit causal claims based on these models. When can these claims be made? We answer this question by first discussing design and estimation conditions under which model estimates can be interpreted, using the randomized experiment as the gold standard. We show how endogeneity – which includes omitted variables, omitted selection, simultaneity, common-method variance, and measurement error – renders estimates causally uninterpretable. Second, we present methods that allow researchers to test causal claims in situations where randomization is not possible or when causal interpretation could be confounded; these methods include fixed-effects panel, sample selection, instrumental variable, regression discontinuity, and difference-in-differences models. Third, we take stock of the methodological rigor with which causal claims are being made in a social sciences discipline by reviewing a representative sample of 110 articles on leadership published in the previous 10 years in top-tier journals. Our key finding is that researchers fail to address at least 66% and up to 90% of design and estimation conditions that make causal claims invalid. We conclude by offering 10 suggestions on how to improve non-experimental research.

On making causal claims : A review and recommendations

Social identity theory and the organization

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When Preference Is Not Satisfied but the Individual Is: How Power Distance Moderates Person–Job Fit

The present study examines the relationship between dual cultural identities and intercultural effectiveness. Upon the evidence of the regulating effects of cultural identities on individuals’ cogn...

Home Versus Host — Identifying With Either, Both, or Neither?: The Relationship between Dual Cultural Identities and Intercultural Effectiveness

As the world becomes more connected, individuals increasingly interact and collaborate with people of different cultural backgrounds and hold multiple cultural identities. However, we know little a...

Navigating between Home, Host, and Global: Consequences of Multicultural Team Members’ Identity Configurations

Actors, Structure, and Processes: A Review and Conceptualization of Global Work Integrating IB and HRM Research:

This paper integrates the concepts of person—environment (PE) fit and social capital and examines the social dynamics of organizational newcomers’ development of fit with their new environment in t...

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Yih-teen Lee

Papers

When Preference Is Not Satisfied but the Individual Is: How Power Distance Moderates Person–Job Fit

Home Versus Host — Identifying With Either, Both, or Neither?: The Relationship between Dual Cultural Identities and Intercultural Effectiveness

Navigating between Home, Host, and Global: Consequences of Multicultural Team Members’ Identity Configurations

Actors, Structure, and Processes: A Review and Conceptualization of Global Work Integrating IB and HRM Research:

How do newcomers fit in? the dynamics between person- environment fit and social capital across cultures