What Are Mechanisms? Ways of Conceptualizing and Studying Causal Mechanisms
Organizational Research Methods
Published online on March 14, 2025
Abstract
Organizational Research Methods, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 147-176, April 2026.
Over the last two decades, much of management research has converged on the belief that one of its major aims is to identify the causal mechanisms that produce the phenomena that researchers seek to explain. In this paper, we review and synthesize the ...
Over the last two decades, much of management research has converged on the belief that one of its major aims is to identify the causal mechanisms that produce the phenomena that researchers seek to explain. In this paper, we review and synthesize the ...