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Journal of Management February Issue Now Online!

January 24, 2013 968

JOM_v38_72ppiRGB_powerpointThe Journal of Management February 2013 issue has been published online at jom.sagepub.com. Now through Feb. 23, enjoy free access to the latest papers on topics including corporate social performance, behavioral reactions to perceived injustice, employees’ perceptions of high-performance HR practices, and much more. Jason R. Pierce and Herman Aguinis, both of Indiana University, published the lead article, “The Too-Much-of-a-Good-Thing Effect in Management“:

A growing body of empirical evidence in the management literature suggests that antecedent variables widely accepted as leading to desirable consequences actually lead to negative outcomes. These increasingly pervasive and often countertheoretical findings permeate levels of analysis (i.e., from micro to macro) and management subfields (e.g., organizational behavior, strategic management). Although seemingly unrelated, the authors contend that this body of empirical research can be accounted for by a meta-theoretical principle they call the too-much-of-a-good-thing effect (TMGT effect). The authors posit that, due to the TMGT effect, all seemingly monotonic positive relations reach context-specific inflection points after which the relations turn asymptotic and often negative, resulting in an overall pattern of curvilinearity. They illustrate how the TMGT effect provides a meta-theoretical explanation for a host of seemingly puzzling results in key areas of organizational behavior (e.g., leadership, personality), human resource management (e.g., job design, personnel selection), entrepreneurship (e.g., new venture planning, firm growth rate), and strategic management (e.g., diversification, organizational slack). Finally, the authors discuss implications of the TMGT effect for theory development, theory testing, and management practice.

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