Field Experiments in Organizations
Field Experiments in Organizations
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DOI：
10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-041015-062400
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
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Eden, Dov
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Eden, Dov
现场实验虽然很少见，但却是组织研究方法的纯金标准。与更容易出错的方法相比，它产生了最好的内部有效和普遍化的发现。许多心理学专业（包括组织心理学）的审稿人综合了大部分非实验研究，警告因果模糊性，并呼吁进行实验复制。这些呼吁大多无人理睬。实际应用是许多组织研究存在的理由。随着循证管理的出现，现场实验使我们能够为从业者提供最可行的工具。这篇综述阐述了实验控制和随机化的作用，并列举了一些影响现场实验的因素。它描述、实例化和评估真实的现场实验、准实验、准场、组合设计和三角测量。它还提供了克服现场实验障碍的实用技巧。评论最后描述了新技术与经典实验设计的融合，并预言了组织现场实验的光明未来。
Field experimentation, although rare, is the sterling-gold standard of organizational research methods. It yields the best internally valid and generalizable findings compared to more fallible methods. Reviewers in many psychology specialties, including organizational psychology, synthesize largely nonexperimental research, warn of causal ambiguity, and call for experimental replication. These calls go mostly unheeded. Practical application is a raison d'etre for much organizational research. With the emergence of evidence-based management, field experiments enable us to deliver the most actionable tools to practitioners. This review explicates the role of experimental control and randomization and enumerates some of the factors that mitigate field experimentation. It describes, instantiates, and evaluates true field experiments, quasi-experiments, quasi-fields, combo designs, and triangulation. It also provides practical tips for overcoming deterrents to field experimentation. The review ends describing the merging of new technologies with classical experimental design and prophesying the bright future of organizational field experimentation.