This podcast discusses Chapter 3, “How to Make Contributions to Theory.” You will learn the criticality of theory for managers, researchers, students, and policymakers; distinctions in discerning good theory; when a new theory is needed from the unit and programmatic theory perspectives; how to prune the theoretical landscape by judging the importance of theory falsification, distinguishing between falsification and failed confirmation; how theory elaboration improves theory, and compare and contrast theory elaboration and other forms of theorizing; the decision-making process for choosing a theory elaboration perspective; to conduct a theory elaboration study by describing five ways to advance theory and explaining how the implementation approaches and tactics advance theory; how bridging levels of analysis improves theory, and more.
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