Editor’s Comments: Developing Propositions, a Process Model, or a Typology? Addressing the Challenges of Writing Theory Without a Boilerplate

Academy of Management ReviewVol. 42, No. 1 From the EditorEditor's Comments: Developing Propositions, a Process Model, or a Typology? Addressing the Challenges of Writing Theory Without a BoilerplateJoep CornelissenJoep CornelissenAssociate EditorPublished Online:13 Jul 2016https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2016.0196AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsDownload CitationsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail View articleREFERENCESAbbott A. 2004. Methods of discovery: Heuristics for the social sciences. New York: Norton. Google ScholarAshforth B. E., Schinoff B. S., Rogers K. M. 2016. "I identify with her," "I identify with him": Unpacking the dynamics of personal identification in organizations. Academy of Management Review, 41: 28–60.Link , Google ScholarByron K., Thatcher S. M. B. 2016. Editors' comments: "What I know now that I wish I knew then"—Teaching theory and theory building. Academy of Management Review, 41: 1–8.Link , Google ScholarCreary S. J., Caza B. B., Roberts L. M. 2015. Out of the box? How managing a subordinate's multiple identities affects the quality of a manager-subordinate relationship. Academy of Management Review, 40: 538–562.Link , Google ScholarDelbridge R., Fiss P. C. 2013. Editors' comments: Styles of theorizing and the social organization of knowledge. Academy of Management Review, 38: 325–331.Link , Google ScholarFiss P. C. 2011. Building better causal theories: A fuzzy set approach to typologies in organizational research. Academy of Management Journal, 54: 393–420.Link , Google ScholarFulmer I. S. 2012. Editor's comments: The craft of writing theory articles—Variety and similarity in AMR. Academy of Management Review, 37: 327–331. Google ScholarHardy C., Maguire S. 2016. Organizing risk: Discourse, power, and "riskification." Academy of Management Review, 41: 80–108.Link , Google ScholarHuang L., Knight A. P. 2017. Resources and relationships in entrepreneurship: An exchange theory of the development and effects of the entrepreneur-investor relationship. Academy of Management Review, 42: 80–102. Google ScholarKilduff M. 2006. Editor's comments: Publishing theory. Academy of Management Review, 31: 252–255.Link , Google ScholarLangley A. 1999. Strategies for theorizing from process data. Academy of Management Review, 24: 691–710.Link , Google ScholarPentland B. T. 1999. Building process theory from narrative: From description to explanation. Academy of Management Review, 24: 711–724.Abstract , Google ScholarRagins B. R. 2012. Editor's comments: Reflections on the craft of clear writing. Academy of Management Review, 37: 493–501.Link , Google ScholarRagins B. R. 2015. Editor's comments: Developing our authors. Academy of Management Review, 40: 1–8.Link , Google ScholarRindova V. P. 2008. Editor's comments: Publishing theory when you are new to the game. Academy of Management Review, 33: 300–303.Link , Google ScholarSuddaby R. 2014. Editor's comments: Why theory? Academy of Management Review, 39: 407–411.Link , Google ScholarWhetten D. A. 1989. What constitutes a theoretical contribution? Academy of Management Review, 14: 490–495.Link , Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byA Typological Theory of Domestic Employees' Acculturation Stress and Adaptation in the Context of GlobalizationVictor P. Lau and Margaret A. Shaffer11 January 2023 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 48, No. 1Cultural Purity as in Utopias, (De)globalization as Externalities, and Typologies as Parsimonious Models of Domestic Employees' Acculturation Stress and Adaptation ResponsesVictor P. Lau and Margaret A. Shaffer11 January 2023 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 48, No. 1Theorizing From Emerging Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Publishing AdviceShad Morris, Ruth V. Aguilera, Greg Fisher and Sherry M. B. Thatcher11 January 2023 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 48, No. 1Disentangling Strategic Consensus: Strategic Consensus Types, Psychological Bonds, and Their Effects on Strategic ClimateNathan A. Bragaw and Vilmos F. Misangyi12 October 2022 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 47, No. 4Why I Rejected Your Paper: Common Pitfalls in Writing Theory Papers and How to Avoid ThemJoanna T. Campbell and Ruth V. Aguilera12 October 2022 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 47, No. 4Envisioning Entrepreneurial Engagement in North KoreaEwald Kibler, Bernadetta A. Ginting-Szczesny, Eero Vaara and Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä8 September 2022 | Academy of Management Discoveries, Vol. 8, No. 3Research Movements and Theorizing Dynamics in Management and Organization StudiesStewart Clegg, Miguel Pina e Cunha and Marco Berti18 July 2022 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 47, No. 3Corporate Foresight: Real or Ideal?Alessandro Fergnani2 June 2022 | Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 36, No. 2From the Editors—The Nuts and Bolts of Writing a Theory Paper: A Practical Guide to Getting StartedSherry M. B. Thatcher and Greg Fisher10 January 2022 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 47, No. 1Modelling the Micro-Foundations of the Audit Society: Organizations and the Logic of the Audit TrailMichael Power14 January 2021 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 46, No. 1The Final Countdown: Regulatory Focus and the Phases of CEO RetirementHansin Bilgili, Joanna Tochman Campbell, Anne O'Leary-Kelly, Alan E. Ellstrand and Jonathan L. Johnson9 January 2020 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 45, No. 1Breadth and Depth in Family Business Research: A Response to Jaskiewicz, Combs, and KetchenAmbra Mazzelli, Robert Nason and Michael Carney21 October 2019 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 44, No. 4Can Early-Career Scholars Conduct Impactful Research? Playing "Small Ball" Versus "Swinging for the Fences"Philip M. Podsakoff, Nathan P. Podsakoff, Paresh Mishra and Carly Escue17 December 2018 | Academy of Management Learning & Education, Vol. 17, No. 4Editors' Comments: Sense and Structure—The Core Building Blocks of an AMR ArticleDonald Lange and Michael D. Pfarrer12 July 2016 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 42, No. 3 Vol. 42, No. 1 Permissions Metrics in the past 12 months History Published online 13 July 2016 Published in print 1 January 2017 Information© Academy of Management ReviewThis essay has benefited a great deal from suggestions made by colleagues on the AMR editorial team and from comments by Peer Fiss, Krishnan Nair, and Ilaria Orlandi.Download PDF