Structural Causal Modeling of Managerial Interventions: What If Managers Had Not Intervened by Doing This?

The authors thank Professor J. Myles Shaver, Senior Editor of Strategy Science, for championing causal identification through a cumulative body of research in the study of strategy and organizations. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for constructive feedback and excellent guidance. Comments and suggestions provided by Isin Guler, Joe Mahoney, Brian Wu, and Emre Yildiz on an earlier version of the article presented at the AMR Theory Development Hackathon are greatly appreciated. Gwen Lee, as the principal investigator, also thanks the National Science Foundation for funding the Workshop on Promoting Robust and Reliable Research Practice held at the University of Florida. A website archiving the content generated from the workshop is hosted at https://warrington.ufl.edu/reliable-research-in-business/.