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First Decade of Organizational Research Methods

Trends in Design, Measurement, and Data-Analysis Topics

Herman Aguinis

University of Colorado Denver, Herman.Aguinis{at}ucdenver.edu

Charles A. Pierce

University of Memphis

Frank A. Bosco

University of Memphis

Ivan S. Muslin

University of Memphis

The authors conducted a content analysis of the 193 articles published in the first 10 volumes (1998 to 2007) of Organizational Research Methods (ORM). The most popular quantitative topics are surveys, temporal issues, and electronic/Web research (research design); validity, reliability, and level of analysis of the dependent variable (measurement); and multiple regression/correlation, structural equation modeling, and multilevel research (data analysis). The most popular qualitative topics are interpretive, policy capturing, and action research (research design); surveys and reliability (measurement); and interpretive, policy capturing, and content analysis (data analysis). The authors found upward trends in the attention devoted to surveys and electronic/Web research, interpretive, and action research (research design); level of analysis of the dependent variable and validity (measurement); and multilevel research (data analysis). Implications for training doctoral students, retooling researchers, future research on methodology, the advancement of the organizational sciences, and the extent to which ORM is fulfilling its mission are discussed.

Key Words: content analysis • quantitative methods • qualitative methods • theory and method • methods training • organizational research • research design • measurement • data analysis

This version was published on January 1, 2009

Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 12, No. 1, 69-112 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1094428108322641
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