Sample selection and theory development: Implications of firms' varying abilities to appropriately select new ventures

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kalnins, Arturs
• 署名单位: Cornell University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 1246-1264
• 关键词: PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; FOREIGN ENTRY; UNITED-STATES; INTERNATIONALIZATION; MARKET; experience; survival; BIAS; performance; CAPABILITY

摘要

I highlight the need to consider sample selection when developing theory. When a sample is the result of a selection process, the process may be (1) generating empirical relationships consistent with a theoretical explanation that plays no causal role or (2) canceling out an empirical relationship actually generated by a causal process associated with a proposed theory. I argue that firms' varying abilities to appropriately select new ventures and select in or out of samples of such investments can lead to empirical misinterpretation and inappropriate theoretical conclusions.