Welcome to the Academy of Management Review's Origins Series, where we ask, "Where does theory come from?" in order to demystify the theory-building process. In this interview series, authors of forthcoming AMR articles discuss how they got the ideas for their papers and share their process for developing new theory in the field of management. In this episode, Nan Jia and Timothy Werner discuss their AMR article coauthored with Stanislav Markus titled " Theoretical Light in Empirical Darkness: Illuminating Strategic Concealment of Corporate Political Activity".

Article web link: ⁠https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amr.2019.0292