ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to contribute to that assessment of the collective efforts in crafting theory and executing research related to organizational justice and ethics. It discusses the fundamental tension between construct proliferation and the rule of parsimony in the pursuit of good science. The chapter describes three types of construct proliferation and the threat each poses to a healthy literature. It also outlines solutions to the challenge, including the concept of construct death matches, which have the potential to help to sort through the construct jungle undergrowth that threatens to choke the scientific progress. Newcomers to the field may think of organizational justice research as one of the most established areas of organizational science. It is. But in terms of sheer scholarly activity, the figure suggests that most of the research is quite recent. Conceptual redundancy exists when two or more constructs cannot be shown to be theoretically distinct.
