Dear colleagues,
Have you heard about natural experiments but you are not sure how use them in your research? Are you interested in learning more about approaches to infer causal relationships? If your answer to at least one of these questions is "yes", then we would like to invite you to this PDW at the 2018 Academy of Management (no registration is necessary):
Session Type: PDW Workshop
Program Session: 105 | Submission: 12948 | Sponsor(s): (RM, OMT, STR, ENT, OB)
Scheduled: Friday, Aug 10 2018 12:30PM - 2:30PM at Sheraton Grand Chicago in Sheraton Ballroom III |
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Natural Experiments in Management Research: A Hands-on Introduction |
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Presenters:
- John Antonakis (Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), University of Lausanne)
- Caroline Flammer (Boston University)
- Michael C. Withers (Texas A&M University)
- Jost Sieweke (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
The question of causality lies at the heart of research in management and organization studies (MOS). However, studies often fail to identify causal relationships, because they are plagued by endogeneity. Whereas randomized experiments represent the "gold standard" to establish causal relationships, they are seldom used because it is difficult to randomly assign individuals or organizations into a treatment and control group. To overcome this problem, researchers in disciplines such as economics and political science have turned towards "natural experiments," which refer to situations in which exogenous factors (e.g., natural disaster, regulatory changes) "as-if" randomly assign a treatment to individuals or organizations. Because of the as- if randomization, researchers are able to draw conclusions about the causal relationship between the treatment and the outcome. Despite the benefits of natural experiments, they have received little attention from MOS researchers. This PDW will introduce natural experiments to MOS scholars. Participants will leave the PDW with knowledge about the common designs of natural experiments (difference-in-difference design, regression discontinuity design, instrumental variable design), the strengths and weaknesses of the designs, and criteria to evaluate the quality of the designs. Furthermore, participants will learn where they can find natural experiments and how they can use natural experiments to answer their research questions.
No registration is needed.
Looking forward to seeing you in Chicago!
Kind regards,
Jost
Jost Sieweke
Assistant Professor
School of Business and Economics
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