Raise your hand if you ever spent hours writing hundreds (thousands??) of lines of code to merge multiple datasets, fix common errors in foundational datasets used by countless scholars (e.g., anything on ERDS), or reconfigure poorly structured data for analysis while thinking, "surely someone has done this before and probably did it better than me."
When you were done with these tasks, did you ever consider sharing that code or the resulting data fixes so the next person facing that task would have an easier time? Or maybe they'd even take what you did and make it better?
As management scholars, we are trained to build on prior work in terms of theory, but we do comparatively little to help each other build better datasets, correct errors in the foundational data used by many scholars, build libraries of code that handle common data manipulation tasks, etc. This panel discussion is about how we might change that.
While the panelists are listed below, the audience will hopefully be an even bigger part of the discussion as we consider how, as a field, we might encourage more open sharing of and collaboration on code and data used in our research.
Please join us!
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SMS Session 2199 - Furthering Strategic Management Research through Collaborative Sharing of Code, Data, and Other Tools
Sunday, September 18
09:30 - 10:45 h
Room: Mezzanine 6
Panelists:
- Aaron Hill: University of Florida, Current Associate Editor at Journal of Management and former Rep-at-Large for SMS Research Methods Community; Co-developer of the SMART Tool
- Alfonso Gambardella: Bocconi University, Former Co-Editor of Strategic Management Journal and advocate for the journal's policies on data access and replications.
- Andreas Schwab: Iowa State University, long-time supporter of advancing research methods; Past Chair of SMS Research Methods Community
- Andrew Blake: Texas Tech University, Developer of SMART Tool website for sharing research data and code (http://smartdatatool.net/)
- Constance Helfat: Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Former Co-Editor of Strategic Management Journal, advocate for the journal's policies on data access and replications, and Director of the FIVES project (http://five.dartmouth.edu/).
- John Busenbark: University of Notre Dame, Methodologist, Co-Editor for the peer-reviewed book Research Methodology in Strategy and Management
- Moderated by Tim Quigley: University of Georgia, Associate Editor at Strategic Management Journal, Co-developer of the SMART Tool, and co-author of dataset paper on CEO Dismissal.
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Timothy Quigley
Associate Professor
University of Georgia
Athens GA
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