The arguments described above suggest that levels
of theory testing should increase as management
research attains strong consensus in its theoretical
paradigms. Although scholars acknowledge
that management has much more dissensus in paradigms
than the hard sciences (Glick et al., 2007;
Pfeffer, 1993), partially because management is interdisciplinary
in nature (Rousseau, 2007), the critical
question for our purposes concerns whether
that fragmentation has decreased over the past five
decades. Clearly the fact that Miner’s (2003) review
of scientific validity included 73 theories representing
the management domain reveals a certain
lack of consensus on paradigms. However, the past
few decades have seemed to bring an increased
focus on a smaller set of theories in the micro and
macro domains, including the theories judged by
Miner (2003) to be highest in scientific validity.