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🎙️✨ Welcome back to Revise and Resubmit, the podcast where great research meets fresh curiosity! ✨🎙️
Today’s episode is one for the academic adventurers, the theory tinkerers, and the idea architects — because we’re diving deep into the soul of scholarship. Welcome to this week's episode titled: “The Six Dimensions of Strong Theory.”
📚 Our guide on this intellectual expedition? None other than Andrew M. Carton, whose brand-new article—just published ahead of print on June 13, 2025—takes center stage in the prestigious FT50 journal, Organization Science. 🏆📖 Published by the brilliant folks at INFORMS, this piece isn’t just a paper… it's a blueprint for how to think about thinking.
Carton doesn't just critique or praise theory. No — he dissects it. He lays out a six-point typology that captures the essence of theoretical strength:
🔑 Importance
🤯 Interestingness
🛠️ Actionability
🌍 Generality
⚙️ Simplicity
📏 Accuracy
But here’s the twist: trying to optimize all six? That’s like chasing a unicorn through a maze of mirrors. 🦄💫 Instead of endless compromise, Carton urges us to prioritize. To choose our battles. To craft theories that don’t try to do it all — but do some things brilliantly.
So here’s the curious question we leave you with today:
🧐 If you had to build a theory that was only strong in two dimensions... which would you choose — and what would you be willing to sacrifice?
🎧 A huge thank-you to Andrew M. Carton and the publisher INFORMS for bringing this profound work into the world — and making it part of such a distinguished journal as Organization Science, a proud member of the FT50 list. 🙌📘
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Reference
Carton, A. M. (2025). The Six Dimensions of Strong Theory. Organization Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2024.19018
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