Meta-Analyses: Some Very Good Steps Toward a Bit Longer Journey

Indiana University

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	Abstract

The authors’ role is to comment on the four articles that compose this feature topic of Organizational Research Methods on meta-analysis. In that spirit, the authors note the common themes addressed in this work and its contribution to a growing body of literature addressing pivotal aspects of meta-analyses. Also, the authors discuss some elements of meta-analysis that may account for its relatively infrequent use by organizational researchers. Last, the authors underscore other features of its use that may be unparalleled when compared to alternative analyses.

First published on August 13, 2007, doi:10.1177/1094428107304409

Organizational Research Methods 2008;11:127.

A more recent version of this article appeared on January 1, 2008


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