EOS offers a home for researchers conducting experiments – lab studies with randomized treatment and control groups – aimed at advancing the understanding of organizations. EOS emphasizes any form of experimental study that furthers our understanding of how individual and group-level processes aggregate to organizational-level behaviour and outcomes. Thriving on a narrow focus relating to the study of mechanisms of aggregation that link the actions of individuals to behaviour at the organizational level (which distinguishes organization science from research on either individuals or markets), EOS aspires to advance experimental rigour while appealing to a broad array of disciplines and a variety of interdisciplinary approaches.

Organizational experiments typically include one or more of the following

- organizationally relevant phenomena

- goal-directedness or joint incentives

- group sizes greater than one

- organizational structures or synthetic aggregation

- interdependence of participant behavior

Example studies include those of group decisions, collective foresight, employee self-selection, decision centralization, or division of labor. Or any other study linking the behavior of individuals to outcomes at the organizational level.