Location, location, location: contextualizing organizational research

Contextualizing entails linking observations to a set of relevant facts, events, or points of view that make possible research and theory that form part of a larger whole. Contextualization is more important in contemporary organizational behavior than it has been in the past. Two reasons in particu...

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Published inJournal of organizational behavior Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 1 - 13
Main Authors Rousseau, Denise M., Fried, Yitzhak
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.02.2001
Wiley Periodicals Inc
Subjects
Absenteeism
Contextual factors
Methods
Organizational behavior
Organizational behaviour
Research methodology
Researchers
Workers
United States > US
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Summary:Contextualizing entails linking observations to a set of relevant facts, events, or points of view that make possible research and theory that form part of a larger whole. Contextualization is more important in contemporary organizational behavior than it has been in the past. Two reasons in particular motivate this. First, the domain of organizational research is becoming more international, giving rise to challenges in transporting social science models from one society to another. Second, the rapidly diversifying nature of work and work settings can substantially alter the underlying causal dynamics of worker-organizational relations.
Bibliography:The ideas expressed in this editorial are the product of the 1999 meeting of the Journal of Organizational Behavior community in Detroit.
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ISSN:0894-3796
1099-1379
DOI:10.1002/job.78