On Theory, Statistics, and the Search for Interactions in the Organizational Sciences

This study is based on a review of several papers on multiple regression (with an emphasis on moderated regression) that have recently been published in the Journal of Management and elsewhere. Independent contributions from each of these articles suggest six sets of questions and/or conclusions that might motivate future researchers in this area, and we call for research which integrates the questions into unified studies.

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