Construct Fallacies and Construct Validation in Theories of Management and Organization
梳理了管理学研究中构念开发与验证中常见的四种逻辑谬误（新颖性、自我参照、具体化、弱或假类比），并提出一个基于论证的构念验证框架，帮助研究者构建更强有力的构念并检测谬误。
Constructs are broadly considered as the foundation of theory. In this paper, we review past writings on constructs and construct validity and highlight how logical errors, or fallacies, are frequent in how constructs are developed and validated in management research. We elaborate four common construct fallacies—a novelty, a self-referential, a reification, and a weak or false analogy fallacy—that affect the validity of a claimed construct and contribute to construct proliferation. As existing construct validity procedures are insufficient in avoiding such construct fallacies, we conceptualize a complementary argumentation-based view of constructs that we extend into a framework for construct validation. We illustrate the uses and value of the framework in developing stronger constructs and in detecting construct fallacies, and, in doing so, draw out its broader implications for theory development and research.