GENERAL |
Managerial fads and fashions: The diffusion and rejection of innovations, Abrahamson, AMR, 1991
Surprising but true: Half the decisions in organizations fail, Nutt, AMP, 1999
What bandwagons bring: Effects of popular management techniques on corporate performance, reputation, and CEO pay, Staw & Epstein, ASQ, 2000
Seven common misconceptions about human resource practices: Research findings versus practitioner beliefs, Rynes et al, AMP, 2002
Is there such thing as evidence-based management?, Denise Rousseau, AMR, 2006
Evidence Based Management, Jeffrey Pfeffer & Bob Sutton, Harvad Business Review, 2006
Trust the Evidence, Not Your Instincts, Jeffrey Pfeffer & Bob Sutton, The New York Times, 2011
Evidence Based HR: Under The Microscope, Katie Jacobs, HR Magazine, 2015
Managerial attitudes and perceived barriers regarding evidence-based practice, Barends et al, PLOS ONE, 2017
The Basics of Evidence-Based Practice, Rob Briner, HR People & Strategy, 2018 |
ASK | Before you make that big decision., Kahneman et al, Harvard Business Review, June 2011.
Cross Section, Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Science Weekly podcast, The Guardian, 2016.
The surprising power of questions., Brooks & John, Harvard Business Review, May-June 2018. |
PRACTITIONER EVIDENCE | Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases, Tversky & Kahneman, Science, 1974
Interview with Daniel Kahneman, Strategy and Business, 2003
The Enron board: The perils of groupthink, Marleen O'Connor, University of Cincinnati Law Review, 2003
The Delphi method for graduate research, Skulmoski et al, JITE-Research, 2007
Exploiting the wisdom of others to make better decisions: Suspending judgment reduces egocentrism and increases accuracy, Yaniv & Choshen, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2012
Experience matters? The impact of prior CEO experience on firm performance, Hamori & Koyuncu, HRM 2015 |
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE | It's the Effect Size, Stupid. What effect size is and why it is important, Robert Coe, 2002
Evidence, hierarchies, and typologies: horses for courses, Petticrew & Roberts, JECH, 2003
GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations, Guyatt et all, BMJ, 2008
Effect sizes and the interpretation of research results in international business, Ellis, JIBS, 2010
Qualitative Quality: Eight “Big-Tent” Criteria for Excellent Qualitative Research, Sarah Tracy, Qualitative Inquiry, 2010
Battling Bad ScienceBen Goldacre, TED Talk, July, 2011
Why we should trust scientists, Naomi Oreskes, TED Talk, June, 2014
Why we should trust scientists, TED Talk, June, 2014
Difficult but Doable: Increasing the Internal Validity of Organizational Change Management Studies, Barends et al, JABS, 2014
Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values, Christie Aschwanden, FiveThirtyEight Science Blog, Nov 2015
How do placebos work? The science of mind over body, Jo Marchant, Guardian Science podcast, March 25, 2016
The Role of Scientific Findings in Evidence-Based HR Briner & Barends, People + Strategy, Spring 2016.
Scientific StudiesJohn Oliver, Last Week Tonight, May 2016
What Science Is — and How and Why It Works, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Huffington Post, 18 November 2016 |
ORGANIZATIONAL EVIDENCE | Misunderstanding the Nature of Company Performance: The halo effect and other business delusions, Rosenzweig, CMR, 2007
Data, data everywhere: A special report on managing information, Kenneth Cukier, The Economist, Feb 2010
Evidence Based Management, Using Organizational Facts, Lex Donaldson, Oxford Handbook of EBMgt, 2012
Making Advanced Analytics Work For You, Barton & Court, HBR, 2012
Beyond the hype: Big data concepts, methods, and analytics, Gandomi & Haider, IJIM, 2015
Big Data: Forget Volume and Variety, Focus On Velocity, Brent Dykes, Forbes, June 2017 |
STAKEHOLDER EVIDENCE | Ethics in Focus Groups: A Few Concerns, Smith, QHR, 1995
Stakeholder theory and managerial decision-making: Constraints and implications of balancing stakeholder interests, Reynolds, Journal of Business Ethics, 2006
Methods of data collection in qualitative research: interviews and focus groups, Gill, BDJ, 2008
Managing Stakeholders for the Sake of Business and Society, Fifka, New perspectives on corporate social responsibility, 2015
Focus Groups - CEBMa Info Sheet CEBMa, 2018
Interviews and focus groups in qualitative research: an update for the digital age, Gill, BDJ, 2018 |
AGGREGATE | The Theory That Would Not Die. How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy, Sharon Bertsch, Talks at Google, YouTube, Aug 2011
The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver, 2013
Think Rationally via Bayes' Rule | Big Think, Julia Galef, 2013
Belief, bias and Bayes, Jon Butterworth, The Guardian, Sept 28, 2014 |
APPLY | GRADE: going from evidence to recommendations, Guyatt et al, BMJ, 2008
Protocol-based care: the standardisation of decision-making?, Rycroft-Malone et al, JCN, 2009
The Importance & Value of the CHECK LISTAtul Gawande, TED talk, 2015
An introduction to implementation science for the non-specialistBauer et al, BMC Psychology, 2015
Rapid Evidence Assessments in Management - Example & applicationBarends et al, 2017 |
ASSESS | After-Event Reviews: Drawing Lessons From Successful and Failed Experience, Ellis & Davidi, JAP 2005
Treat Your Organization as a Prototype: The Essence of Evidence-Based Management., Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I Sutton. Design Management Review, 2006
A conceptual framework for implementation fidelity., Carroll et al, Implementation Science, 2007
A step-by-step guide to smart business experiments., Anderson et al, HBR, 2011
Do Team and Individual Debriefs Enhance Performance? A Meta-Analysis, Tannenbaum & Cerasoli, Human Factors, 2013
Field experiments in organizations, Annual Review of OPOB, 2017 |
CAPACITY BUILDING | Politics Over Analytics: BI and Data Science Findings Need a Pitch, Vaughan Robison, LinkedIn blog, January 2015
Laszlo Bock - Work Rules Highlights, London Business Forum, 2015
Why we cover our ears to the facts, Matthew Syed, BBC Magazine, 2016.
An accountability account: A review and synthesis of the theoretical and empirical research on felt accountability, Hall et al, JOB, 2017
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds - New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason., Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 2017
Robert Cialdini on how persuasion works in business and politics, Cardiff Garcia, transcript of interview with Robert Cialdini, Financial Times Alphaville, 2017 |