Accommodational plasticity in organizational science: Impact of hypothesis framing on effect size

Authors

Frank A. Bosco, Marshall UniversityFollow
James G. Field, Marshall UniversityFollow
Charles A. Pierce, University of Memphis

Abstract

We conducted a content analysis to investigate whether research findings vary as a function of how they are hypothesized to be related in published reports. We observed that mean correlations were substantially larger when the variable pairs were hypothesized to be related compared to when the pairs were not hypothesized.

Publication Title

Academy of Management 2012 Annual Meeting, AOM 2012

Recommended Citation

Bosco, F., Field, J., & Pierce, C. (2012). Accommodational plasticity in organizational science: Impact of hypothesis framing on effect size. Academy of Management 2012 Annual Meeting, AOM 2012, 834-839. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2012.266