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Although interaction hypotheses are increasingly common in our field, many recent articles point out that authors often have difficulty justifying them. The purpose of this article is to describe a particular type of interaction: the restricted variance (RV) interaction. The essence of the RV interaction is that, as the value of one variable in a system changes, certain values of another variable in the system become less plausible, thus restricting its variance. This, in turn, influences relationships between that variable and other variables. These types of interactions are quite common, even if they are not recognized as RV interactions, and they exist at every level of analysis. The advantage of the RV interaction is that, as compared with other interaction types, it is relatively simple to justify. The different forms of RV interaction do, however, contain complexities of which a researcher must be aware. This article explains and illustrates the forms that RV interactions can take and their often counterintuitive implications. It also describes how one should go about testing them. Our intention is to help researchers strengthen and focus their interaction arguments.

With the increased debate on replication in quantitative research, the question arises as to whether there should be more replication occurring in qualitative research as well, and what that might ...

The inability to define and understand rigor in qualitative research has led to a number of issues that require further thought and movement towards resolution. These include, among many others, th...

Academia has changed over the last decades and so have academic careers. In a 2019 special issue of the journal Academy of Management Learning and Education, we have brought together a set of paper...

Workplace abuse, broadly defined as interpersonal mistreatment against employees in the workplace that might harm or injure them and contribute to a hostile work environment, is one of the most pervasive and harmful problems faced by organizations worldwide. In the current symposium, we focus attention on the macro-level drivers of workplace abuse that occur within organizations and in society more generally. At the societal level, we will have one paper about important global trends affecting today’s organizations. The paper investigates how, why, and for whom these macro forces have implications when it comes to workplace harassment. At the organizational level, we will have three papers, one dedicated to unpacking the multiple dimensions of organizational tolerance for abuse. Two more papers will focus on structural organizational features, namely the mechanisms of communication, and structural pay inequality that can impact perceptions of interpersonal abuse at work. We argue that a stronger focus on studying the “barrel” and “orchard”, rather than “apples” and “cases”, can enhance our understanding of social and structural factors that underpin everyday workplace interactions and help us identify new avenues of theorizing and practice to prevent interpersonal workplace abuse.

The act of reviewing is the backbone of the academic enterprise as it ensures high-quality outputs. A number of scholars in the early stages of their academic career find themselves in reviewer pos...

The inability to define and understand rigor in qualitative research has led to a number of issues that need resolution. These include, among many others, the mechanistic application of templates f...

The literature on cultural intelligence (CQ) has experienced a rapid development that reflects an increased interest in understanding how people adapt across cultures. Despite this development, iss...

In recent years international language management has been attracting substantial scholarly attention. While some progress has been made, there is still space for major contributions by focusing on...

Repeatedly, reflection and reflexivity have been shown to have beneficial effects for managers, learners, practitioners, and students. However, as a management discipline we still seem to lack a pr...

Ethical, rigorous, and relevant research conduct features prominently in ongoing debates in a range of sub-disciplines in management, but also in other fields of research. These debates focus on a ...

The past few decades have seen a proliferation of meta-analytic research across the organizational sciences. Implicit in the conduct and consumption of meta-analysis is a positivist epistemology, t...

Multinational companies often assign expatriates who share an ethnicity with host country employees to work in their subsidiaries, and expect them to work effectively with local employees. Nonethel...

Academia has changed over the last decades and so have academic careers. The papers in this symposium discuss important factors that influence career success in the three main areas of academic job...

Academia has changed over the last decades and so have academic careers. In this symposium, we look at different facets of work in academia that influence academic careers in management. We explore...

Chinese and foreign organizations operating in China employ overseas Chinese employees, believing they can better transfer knowledge between China and foreign countries. Mechanisms affecting their ...

This conceptual paper adopts a cognitive neuroscience perspective to develop theory about the consequences of foreign language use in organizational settings. In contrast to previous work that has ...

Effective knowledge transfer between headquarters and overseas units has been a challenge for MNCs. Expatriates are often expected to facilitate this task. Since there are many challenges in workin...

As the nature of work is changing, teams are becoming increasingly more globally dispersed and culturally diverse, as well as more reliant upon virtual interactions. Some researchers argue that the...