Bill Harley

Between fit and flexibility? The benefits of high-performance work practices and leadership capability for innovation outcomes

Peter Gahan, Max Theilacker, Mladen Adamovic, Daejeong Choi, Bill Harley, Joshua Healy, Jesse E Olsen

Journal article  |  2021  |  Human Resource Management Journal

The idea that human resource management (HRM) plays a strategic role in generating sustainable competitive advantage for organisat..

Not Even Trying to Change the World: Why Do Elite Management Journals Ignore the Major Problems Facing Humanity?

Bill Harley, Peter Fleming

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

Social scientists have long been concerned with using their research to make the world a better place and there are frequently cal..

Does procedural justice climate increase the identification and engagement of migrant workers? A group engagement model perspective

Mladen Adamovic, Peter Gahan, Jesse Olsen, Bill Harley, Joshua Healy, Max Theilacker

Journal article  |  2020  |  PERSONNEL REVIEW

Purpose: Migrant workers often suffer from social exclusion in the workplace and therefore identify less with their organization a..

Why Don’t Top Management Journals Publish More Papers on the Big Challenges Facing Humanity?

Bill Harley, Peter Fleming

Journal article  |  2020  |  Academy of Management Proceedings

Our paper analysed approximately 5500 articles published in ‘top-tier’ management journals between 2008 and 2018 to identify the e..

Rigor With or Without Templates? The Pursuit of Methodological Rigor in Qualitative Research

Bill Harley, Joep Cornelissen

Journal article  |  2020  |  ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS

The domain of qualitative research is replete with templates, standard protocols for the analysis of qualitative data. The use of ..

Publishing human resource management research in different kinds of journals

B Harley

Book Chapter  |  2020

A number of authors, myself included, have suggested that human resource management (HRM) research - and certainly that published ..

Bringing the Leader Back in: Why, How, and When Leadership Empowerment Behavior Shapes Coworker Conflict

M Adamovic, P Gahan, JE Olsen, B Harley, J Healy, M Theilacker

Journal article  |  2020  |  Group and Organization Management

With the diffusion of team-based work organizations and flatter organizational hierarchies, many leaders empower employees to perf..

Templates in Qualitative Research Methods: How Have We Got Here and How Do We Get Out?

Vikram Bhakoo, Tine Koehler, Anne D Smith, Sebnem Cilesiz, Joep Cornelissen, Martha S Feldman, Karen Golden-Biddle, Thomas Greckhamer, Bill Harley, Mikko Ketokivi, Karen D Locke, Saku Mantere, Michael G Pratt, Scott Sonenshein

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Academy of Management Proceedings

Confronting the Crisis of Confidence in Management Studies: Why Senior Scholars Need to Stop Setting a Bad Example

B Harley

Journal article  |  2019  |  Academy of Management Learning and Education

There is an emerging crisis of confidence in management studies. This is expressed in growing disquiet about the lack of value in ..

Reframing Rigor as Reasoning: Challenging Technocratic Conceptions of Rigor in Management Research Abstract Acknowledgments

Bill Harley, Joep Cornelissen

Book Chapter  |  2019  |  Research in the Sociology of Organizations

In this chapter, the authors critique dominant technocratic conceptions of rigor in management research and elaborate an alternati..