from the actual findings presented. These sorts of issues are clearly critical to the quality of an article’s theoretical contribution and are likely to be significant predictors of scholarly impact. Unfortunately, coding such issues requires an indepth content expertise that is lacking in a journalwide review of this type.
Theory Building
The vertical axis of Figure 1 describes levels of theory building. Our conceptualization of theory building captures the degree to which an empirical article clarifies or supplements existing theory or introduces relationships and constructs that serve as the foundations for new theory. Many of the arguments used to describe the degrees of theory building on the vertical axis were inspired by