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Social Sciences & Humanities Open

Journal of Trial and Error

This paper introduces the practice of complementary explanation; the practice of taking a publish... more This paper introduces the practice of complementary explanation; the practice of taking a published result and writing a focused paper that rigorously and systematically describes the implications for a theory that would be rejected by those results. Such spotlighting of a rejected theory counteracts the common alignment between theory and result in published work.

Academy of Management Proceedings

Academy of Management Proceedings

<p>Fig 3 is based on a model regressing attribution to ability on score achieved, language ... more <p>Fig 3 is based on a model regressing attribution to ability on score achieved, language condition, the interaction between them, and a continuous measure of FLA and its interaction with score and language condition separately and combined, and control variables for gender, current average English grade, and whether the participant was in the 2^nd or 3^rd year.</p

<p>Mean and standard deviation of ability attributions by difficulty and language.</p

<p>Histograms of attribution to ability minus total other.</p

<p>The interaction term captures the positive covariation, such that the main effects captu... more <p>The interaction term captures the positive covariation, such that the main effects capture only negative covariation.</p

<p>Complementary explanation is an approach to falsify more theories. This counteracts the ... more <p>Complementary explanation is an approach to falsify more theories. This counteracts the current bias toward supporting theories.</p>

National Covid-19 Measures as a Natural Experiment – A pre-registration

Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2021

This paper investigates entrepreneurs' satisfaction. We conceptually replicate and extend Carree ... more This paper investigates entrepreneurs' satisfaction. We conceptually replicate and extend Carree and Verheul's (2012) Dutch study on the drivers of entrepreneurs' satisfaction with data from Belgian entrepreneurs. Thus, we respond to the need to replicate more in the (social) sciences, including entrepreneurship studies. The 'extension' aspect contributes novel theoretical understanding and empirical explanatory power of entrepreneurs' satisfaction. Specifically, the paper introduces psychological flexibility as an important new predictor of entrepreneurs' satisfaction. Indeed, we provide evidence that entrepreneurs with greater psychological flexibility are, on average, more satisfied.

<p>This paper applies the new approach of complementary explanation to a collection of pape... more <p>This paper applies the new approach of complementary explanation to a collection of papers on institutional logics. That identifies specific challenges that institutional logics need new theorizing for, and discusses some possibilities to address that need for theory that seem plausible but are not consistent with empirical findings.</p>

PLOS ONE, 2018

The rise of bilingual education triggers an important question: which language is preferred for a... more The rise of bilingual education triggers an important question: which language is preferred for a particular school activity? Our field experiment (n = 120) shows that students (aged 13-15) who process feedback in non-native English have greater self-serving bias than students who process feedback in their native Dutch. By contrast, literature on the foreign-language emotionality effect suggests a weaker self-serving bias in the non-native language, so our result adds nuance to that literature. The result is important to schools as it suggests that teachers may be able to reduce students' defensiveness and demotivation by communicating negative feedback in the native language, and teachers may be able to increase students' confidence and motivation by communicating positive feedback in the foreign language.

Essay’ derives from the French ‘to try’. Accordingly, in this book, I try three new interpretatio... more Essay’ derives from the French ‘to try’. Accordingly, in this book, I try three new interpretations of diffusion and categories. That is, I try to divide observations into groups in a new way. Some ways of dividing lead to confusion and frustration. For example, people’s default division seems to be ‘good’ and ‘bad’, or ‘like’ and ‘dislike’. Observations such as, for instance, high rates of domestic violence in marriages of American football players are confusing given this division, because people like football but dislike violence. The fact that the same person is in both of these opposing categories causes cognitive dissonance. In contrast, a meaningful division, such as ‘aggressive people’ and ‘timid people’, leads to consistency and peace of mind; football players are selected for their aggressiveness and domestic violence is an expression of aggressiveness. Likewise, each chapter tries a new way of grouping observations about organizations. Trying an interpretation involves de...

Frontiers in Psychology

Can business humanize its stakeholders? And if so, how does this relate to moral consideration fo... more Can business humanize its stakeholders? And if so, how does this relate to moral consideration for stakeholders? In this paper we compare two business orientations that are relevant for current business theory and practice: a stakeholder orientation and a profit orientation. We empirically investigate the causal relationships between business orientation, humanization, and moral consideration. We report the results of six experiments, making use of different operationalizations of a stakeholder and profit orientation, different stakeholders (employees, suppliers, labor unions), and different participant samples. Our findings support the prediction that individual stakeholders observing a stakeholder-oriented firm see the firm’s other stakeholders as more human than individual stakeholders observing a profit-oriented firm. This humanization, in turn, increases individual stakeholders’ moral consideration for the firm’s other stakeholders. Our findings underscore the importance of hum...

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013

Social Sciences

The rigor-versus-relevance debate in the world of academia is, by now, an old-time classic that d... more The rigor-versus-relevance debate in the world of academia is, by now, an old-time classic that does not seem to go away so easily. The grassroots movement Responsible Research in Business and Management, for instance, is a very active and prominent advocate of the need to change current research practices in the management domain, broadly defined. One of its main critiques is that current research practices are not apt to address day-to-day management challenges, nor do they allow such management challenges to feed into academic research. In this paper, we address this issue, and present a research design, referred to as CARE, that is aimed at building a bridge from rigor to relevance, and vice versa. In so doing, we offer a template for conducting rigorous research with immediate impact, contributing to solving issues that businesses are struggling with through a design that facilitates causal inference.

Social Sciences & Humanities Open

Journal of Trial and Error

This paper introduces the practice of complementary explanation; the practice of taking a publish... more This paper introduces the practice of complementary explanation; the practice of taking a published result and writing a focused paper that rigorously and systematically describes the implications for a theory that would be rejected by those results. Such spotlighting of a rejected theory counteracts the common alignment between theory and result in published work.

Academy of Management Proceedings

Academy of Management Proceedings

<p>Fig 3 is based on a model regressing attribution to ability on score achieved, language ... more <p>Fig 3 is based on a model regressing attribution to ability on score achieved, language condition, the interaction between them, and a continuous measure of FLA and its interaction with score and language condition separately and combined, and control variables for gender, current average English grade, and whether the participant was in the 2^nd or 3^rd year.</p

<p>Mean and standard deviation of ability attributions by difficulty and language.</p

<p>Histograms of attribution to ability minus total other.</p

<p>The interaction term captures the positive covariation, such that the main effects captu... more <p>The interaction term captures the positive covariation, such that the main effects capture only negative covariation.</p

<p>Complementary explanation is an approach to falsify more theories. This counteracts the ... more <p>Complementary explanation is an approach to falsify more theories. This counteracts the current bias toward supporting theories.</p>

National Covid-19 Measures as a Natural Experiment – A pre-registration

Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2021

This paper investigates entrepreneurs' satisfaction. We conceptually replicate and extend Carree ... more This paper investigates entrepreneurs' satisfaction. We conceptually replicate and extend Carree and Verheul's (2012) Dutch study on the drivers of entrepreneurs' satisfaction with data from Belgian entrepreneurs. Thus, we respond to the need to replicate more in the (social) sciences, including entrepreneurship studies. The 'extension' aspect contributes novel theoretical understanding and empirical explanatory power of entrepreneurs' satisfaction. Specifically, the paper introduces psychological flexibility as an important new predictor of entrepreneurs' satisfaction. Indeed, we provide evidence that entrepreneurs with greater psychological flexibility are, on average, more satisfied.

<p>This paper applies the new approach of complementary explanation to a collection of pape... more <p>This paper applies the new approach of complementary explanation to a collection of papers on institutional logics. That identifies specific challenges that institutional logics need new theorizing for, and discusses some possibilities to address that need for theory that seem plausible but are not consistent with empirical findings.</p>

PLOS ONE, 2018

The rise of bilingual education triggers an important question: which language is preferred for a... more The rise of bilingual education triggers an important question: which language is preferred for a particular school activity? Our field experiment (n = 120) shows that students (aged 13-15) who process feedback in non-native English have greater self-serving bias than students who process feedback in their native Dutch. By contrast, literature on the foreign-language emotionality effect suggests a weaker self-serving bias in the non-native language, so our result adds nuance to that literature. The result is important to schools as it suggests that teachers may be able to reduce students' defensiveness and demotivation by communicating negative feedback in the native language, and teachers may be able to increase students' confidence and motivation by communicating positive feedback in the foreign language.

Essay’ derives from the French ‘to try’. Accordingly, in this book, I try three new interpretatio... more Essay’ derives from the French ‘to try’. Accordingly, in this book, I try three new interpretations of diffusion and categories. That is, I try to divide observations into groups in a new way. Some ways of dividing lead to confusion and frustration. For example, people’s default division seems to be ‘good’ and ‘bad’, or ‘like’ and ‘dislike’. Observations such as, for instance, high rates of domestic violence in marriages of American football players are confusing given this division, because people like football but dislike violence. The fact that the same person is in both of these opposing categories causes cognitive dissonance. In contrast, a meaningful division, such as ‘aggressive people’ and ‘timid people’, leads to consistency and peace of mind; football players are selected for their aggressiveness and domestic violence is an expression of aggressiveness. Likewise, each chapter tries a new way of grouping observations about organizations. Trying an interpretation involves de...

Frontiers in Psychology

Can business humanize its stakeholders? And if so, how does this relate to moral consideration fo... more Can business humanize its stakeholders? And if so, how does this relate to moral consideration for stakeholders? In this paper we compare two business orientations that are relevant for current business theory and practice: a stakeholder orientation and a profit orientation. We empirically investigate the causal relationships between business orientation, humanization, and moral consideration. We report the results of six experiments, making use of different operationalizations of a stakeholder and profit orientation, different stakeholders (employees, suppliers, labor unions), and different participant samples. Our findings support the prediction that individual stakeholders observing a stakeholder-oriented firm see the firm’s other stakeholders as more human than individual stakeholders observing a profit-oriented firm. This humanization, in turn, increases individual stakeholders’ moral consideration for the firm’s other stakeholders. Our findings underscore the importance of hum...

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013

Social Sciences

The rigor-versus-relevance debate in the world of academia is, by now, an old-time classic that d... more The rigor-versus-relevance debate in the world of academia is, by now, an old-time classic that does not seem to go away so easily. The grassroots movement Responsible Research in Business and Management, for instance, is a very active and prominent advocate of the need to change current research practices in the management domain, broadly defined. One of its main critiques is that current research practices are not apt to address day-to-day management challenges, nor do they allow such management challenges to feed into academic research. In this paper, we address this issue, and present a research design, referred to as CARE, that is aimed at building a bridge from rigor to relevance, and vice versa. In so doing, we offer a template for conducting rigorous research with immediate impact, contributing to solving issues that businesses are struggling with through a design that facilitates causal inference.