Idiographic versus Nomothetic Approaches to Research in Organizations.

Abstract

After first examining the underlying 'sameness' assumption of the dominant nomothetic (group-centered) research perspective, an alternative interactive theoretic assumption is proposed for organizational behavior. This calls for idiographic (individual-centered) research. Intensive single-case experimental designs and direct measures from the idiographic approach are presented and analyzed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA104548

Entities

People

  • Fred Luthans
  • Tim R. V. Davis

Organizations

  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

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  • Applied Psychology
  • Case Studies
  • Cognition
  • Data Science
  • Employment
  • Experimental Design
  • Factor Analysis
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Science
  • New York
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Inference
  • Statistics
  • Surveys

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  • Psychology

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