A Review and Evaluation of Meta-Analysis Practices in Management Research Export

@article{citeulike:4235235, abstract = {Meta-analysis has become increasingly popular in management research to quantitatively integrate research findings across a large number of studies. In an effort to help shape future applications of meta-analysis in management, this study chronicles and evaluates the decisions that management researchers made in 69 meta-analytic studies published between 1980 and 2007 in 14 management journals. It performs four meta-analyses of relationships that have been studied with varying frequency in management research, to provide empirical evidence that meta-analytical decisions influence results. The implications of the findings are discussed with a focus on the changes that seem appropriate. 10.1177/0149206308328501}, author = {Geyskens, Inge and Krishnan, Rekha and Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict E. and Cunha, Paulo V.}, citeulike-article-id = {4235235}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206308328501}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/35/2/393}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0149206308328501}, journal = {Journal of Management}, keywords = {management, methodology, research}, month = {March}, number = {2}, pages = {393--419}, posted-at = {2009-11-10 10:28:19}, priority = {2}, title = {A Review and Evaluation of Meta-Analysis Practices in Management Research}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206308328501}, volume = {35}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4235235 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4235235 N2 - Meta-analysis has become increasingly popular in management research to quantitatively integrate research findings across a large number of studies. In an effort to help shape future applications of meta-analysis in management, this study chronicles and evaluates the decisions that management researchers made in 69 meta-analytic studies published between 1980 and 2007 in 14 management journals. It performs four meta-analyses of relationships that have been studied with varying frequency in management research, to provide empirical evidence that meta-analytical decisions influence results. The implications of the findings are discussed with a focus on the changes that seem appropriate. 10.1177/0149206308328501 IS - 2 JF - Journal of Management EP - 419 TI - A Review and Evaluation of Meta-Analysis Practices in Management Research VL - 35 SP - 393 KW - management KW - methodology KW - research AU - Geyskens, Inge AU - Krishnan, Rekha AU - Steenkamp, Jan-Benedict AU - Cunha, Paulo PY - 2009/03/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206308328501 ER -