As initially spawned through the meso movement in organizational behavior, the multilevel paradigm has permeated virtually every subdiscipline of management. The authors review its evolution from different disciplinary origins in terms of theory, measurement and construct validity, and design and analysis. They illustrate that although its origins are disparate and multidisciplinary, the modern-day multilevel paradigm is coherent and well entrenched in modern management research. They then raise five challenges to the current paradigm in terms of the following: first, the ambiguities surrounding the units of inquiry; second, the violations of the nesting assumption; third, the need to integrate the nested-arrangements approach with the longitudinal approach; fourth, the challenges associated with modeling current and future multilevel models; and, fifth, the role of multidisciplinary influences for multilevel management theory and investigations. Their hope is that this article will spark a paradigm shift in multilevel management research.
Found from: January 11th, 2021 Was reading @Mathieu2012 in looking for motivation section for MTS-TA paper, he mentioned the importance of identifying the unit of analysis in MTSs as something he had stressed in this paper.
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Pulling together themes of multilevel research, looking back over multiple decades. Early research was siloed, which created issues because decisions made, perspectives utilized, and theories differed by researchers in different areas.