Reflections on the 2016 Decade Award: Incorporating Context in Organizational Research

This is a reflection on my 2006 article, “The Essential Impact of Context on Organizational Behavior,” which received the 2016 Academy of Management Review Decade Award. I review some studies supporting my earlier contention that the impact of context has been underappreciated in management research and then recount the genesis of the article, particularly emphasizing the capacity of context to explain anomalous and counterintuitive research...