What is it about?
Research in management is far behind other fields of study in showing the data directly through graphical methods. This article demonstrates this fact and gives some guidelines on how to improve research practices so that the field can advance faster and more reliably.
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Why is it important?
Research should be correct, and it should be important. How do graphs help with this? Graphs showing the data help make the research correct, because it focuses our attention on strong effects, not weak ones. For the same reason, graphs make the research important, because it guides us to the effects that are most important for organizations, people, and society.
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I have long been bothered by how hard it can be to tell from tables whether the researcher is showing effects that matter in the world, or just effects that gain significance. This problem is getting worse as datasets increase in size, making small effects easy to measure. Graphs are a way to return to the basics. Find out what matters, and what influences it most. Communicate these relations effectively.
Professor Henrich R Greve
INSEAD
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This page is a summary of: Show Me the Data! Improving Evidence Presentation for Publication, Management and Organization Review, June 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/mor.2018.18.
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