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The baby and the bathwater: On the need for substantive–methodological synergy in organizational research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2021

Joeri Hofmans ,
Alexandre J. S. Morin ,
Heiko Breitsohl Open the ORCID record for Heiko Breitsohl[Opens in a new window] ,
Eva Ceulemans ,
Léandre Alexis Chénard-Poirier ,
Charles C. Driver ,
Claude Fernet Open the ORCID record for Claude Fernet[Opens in a new window] ,
Marylène Gagné ,
Nicolas Gillet  and
Vicente González-Romá
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Joeri Hofmans*
Affiliation:
Vrije UniversiteitBrussel, Belgium
Alexandre J. S. Morin
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Canada
Heiko Breitsohl
Affiliation:
University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Eva Ceulemans
Affiliation:
KU Leuven, Belgium
Léandre Alexis Chénard-Poirier
Affiliation:
Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Charles C. Driver
Affiliation:
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Claude Fernet
Affiliation:
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
Marylène Gagné
Affiliation:
Curtin University, Australia
Nicolas Gillet
Affiliation:
Université de Tours, France, & Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), France
Vicente González-Romá
Affiliation:
University of Valencia, Spain
Kevin J. Grimm
Affiliation:
Arizona State University, USA
Ellen L. Hamaker
Affiliation:
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Kit-Tai Hau
Affiliation:
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Simon A. Houle
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Canada
Joshua L. Howard
Affiliation:
Monash University, Australia
Rex B. Kline
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Canada
Evy Kuijpers
Affiliation:
Vrije UniversiteitBrussel, Belgium
Theresa Leyens
Affiliation:
Vrije UniversiteitBrussel, Belgium
David Litalien
Affiliation:
Université Laval, Canada
Anne Mäkikangas
Affiliation:
Tampere University, Finland
Herbert W. Marsh
Affiliation:
Australian Catholic University, Australia, & The University of Oxford, UK
Matthew J. W. McLarnon
Affiliation:
Mount Royal University, Canada
John P. Meyer
Affiliation:
The University of Western Ontario, Canada & Curtin University, Australia
Jose Navarro
Affiliation:
University of Barcelona, Spain
Elizabeth Olivier
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal, Canada
Thomas A. O’Neill
Affiliation:
University of Calgary, Canada
Reinhard Pekrun
Affiliation:
University of Essex, United Kingdom, and Australian Catholic University, Australia
Katariina Salmela-Aro
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki, Finland
Omar N. Solinger
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sabine Sonnentag
Affiliation:
University of Mannheim, Germany
Louis Tay
Affiliation:
Purdue University, USA
István Tóth-Király
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Canada
Robert J. Vallerand
Affiliation:
Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Christian Vandenberghe
Affiliation:
HEC Montréal, Canada
Yvonne G. T. van Rossenberg
Affiliation:
Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, the Netherlands
Tim Vantilborgh
Affiliation:
Vrije UniversiteitBrussel, Belgium
Jasmine Vergauwe
Affiliation:
Ghent University, Belgium
Jesse T. Vullinghs
Affiliation:
Vrije UniversiteitBrussel, Belgium
Mo Wang
Affiliation:
University of Florida, USA
Zhonglin Wen
Affiliation:
South China Normal University, China
Bart Wille
Affiliation:
Ghent University, Belgium
*
*Corresponding author. Email: joeri.hofmans@vub.be
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2021 , pp. 497 - 504
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The first and second author contributed equally to this article and their order was determined at random. Both should be considered first authors. Beyond the first and second authors, the order of appearance of all other coauthors was determined alphabetically (as a function of their family names).

The second author was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (435-2018-0368).

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