Strategic Management Thought

Multilevel Approach and its Application to Organizational Theorizing

Authors

1 Faculty member of Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

2 PhD student in Business Management, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Organizational theorists through theoretical and practical theories try to solve the organizational problems and extend the organizational knowledge. Conventional approach in organizational theorizing studies organizational-level phenomena or at micro level (organizational behavioral: OB) or at macro level (organizational theories: OT) and can not to consider the effect of top-down and bottom-up phenomenon. Multilevel approach as an emerging paradigm and method is able to see organizational phenomena as a multilevel, so that analyze the impact of phenomenon at a higher level and higher level factors impacts on the phenomenon. Multilevel theorizing begins with determining the type of constructs to be studied and then continues with determining the type of relationship between constructs in multilevel model format. Sampling and determining analysis design are final phase of multilevel studies. Article authors, through documentary studies, try to identify multilevel theorizing method and present it in the form of a flowchart process. For more precise explanation of this approach before addressing process of Multilevel theorizing, what and why of it in the form of concepts, epistemological foundations and theorizing principles are presented.

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Strategic Management Thought
Volume 3, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
October 2009
Pages 5-40
  • Receive Date: 30 September 2009
  • Revise Date: 23 September 2009
  • Accept Date: 20 January 2010