Collective Construct Clarity: Not Just to Nominalize But to Theorize

To help acquire knowledge and establish organization theories, scholars conceptualize and develop appropriate constructs to represent organizational phenomena, and impose certain properties on these constructs for providing useful bases on which these phenomena are measured before inquiring into the causal relationships. There are primarily vital issues of construct clarity and construct validity. In the conventional sense, scholars most often either ignore activities which are manifestations of the dynamic nature of organizational entities and integral parts of organizational phenomena, or attribute them to capabilities, the likes of properties of organizational entities such as capacities, and then treat these properties instead of activities as causal agents. This treatment implies that activities are nominalized and reducible to properties of entities in that all verbs are eliminated and turned into property-like nouns. Consequently, the complex organizational practices and dynamics thought critical t...