题目: How to Argue the Moderating Mechanism in Management and Organization Research? Patterns and Evidence

主讲人: 贾良定（南京大学商学院管理学教授）

时间 : 2015年11月2日(周一)上午8:30

地点: 同济大厦A楼201室

讲座内容（Abstract）:

The past decades bear witness to a gradual acquaintance with the moderators by management and organization scholars. Existing literature discussed the methods of testing and interpreting moderation, but neglected discussing the logic of arguing the moderating mechanism. The two questions are complementary and indispensable. To establish a moderating relation, we must have solid logics to argue why under certain context the direction and/or strength of the relation between an independent variable and a dependent variable does change. In this study, we answer the later question in three steps. First, we develop a general framework including three patterns of arguing logic about a moderating mechanism. Second, we analyze 483 moderating hypotheses from 156 articles published in Academy of Management Journal during 2008 to 2013 according to the three patterns in the above framework. Third, we choose several hypotheses as the cases in each pattern, and present the argument logics of developing the moderating hypotheses. We also present some example hypotheses to show how the authors jointly use the patters to develop their arguments in each hypothesis. We hope this paper will give our readers some specific and practical directions for arguing moderation effects.

主讲人介绍：

贾良定，南京大学商学院管理学教授。现任《南大商学评论》执行主编。主持国家自然科学基金项目四项。在Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology等国外学术期刊，及《经济研究》、《管理世界》等国内学术期刊上发表论文50余篇。研究兴趣包括乡镇产业集群的成长、雇佣关系、企业家与企业战略等。