CET 12:30

Phanish Puranam, Insead

Organizational experiments help us understand how individual and group-level processes aggregate to organizational-level behaviour and outcomes. The study of mechanisms of aggregation that link the actions of individuals to behaviour at the organizational level distinguishes organization science from research on either individuals or markets. Such experiments thus may include organizationally relevant phenomena, goal-directedness or joint incentives, group sizes greater than one, organizational structures or synthetic aggregation, and interdependence of participant behavior. Example studies include those of group decisions, collective foresight, employee self-selection, committee decisions, or division of labor. Or any other study linking the behavior of individuals to outcomes at the organizational level.

CET 12:00

Christian Troester, KLU Hamburg

In the first half of this session, Christian Troester (KLU) will explain how effective control conditions can be designed. We will then outline the process of designing an experimental stimulus using a preregistration document as a template. Finally, we will discuss how to use power analyses to establish a sampling strategy.

CET 12:30

Ronald Klingebiel, Frankfurt School

We continue the theme of designing effective stimuli. The focus is on how participants understand your setup. For us to confidently assign a causal process to a manipulation result, we need to grapple with participant priors. We will walk through examples of informed priors that might drive behavior in extant studies of decisions under uncertainty. The issue gains in importance in interactive multi-player designs such as used in organizational experiments. Solutions include transparent instructions, practice rounds, comprehension checks, and verifiability of the mechanisms that generate uncertainty for participants. More hands-on, we also review how your stimulus ideas can ensure that participants operate within your theorized bounds of reasoning.

CET 12:30

Franziska Lauenstein, KLU Hamburg
Elizabeth Konolova, Warwick

In the first part of the lecture, Franziska Lauenstein will give an overview of the current state of experiments in organization science with a focus on task paradigms used and other methods experiments are combined with. In the second half, Elizaveta Konovalova will provide more detailed insights into how experiments can be combined with theoretical models.

CET 12:30

Sebastian Pouget, Toulouse

In the first half, I will introduce previously undiscussed organizational applications for experiments. In the second half, Sebastien Pouget will home in on CSR as a construct that can be studies using experiments.

CET 12:30

Marius van Dijke, RSM

In the first half, Marius van Dijke discusses how to capture interpersonal interactions in experiments. The second half goes through the practicalities of running a multi-player experiment including different platforms that can be used and some practical lessons learned.

CET 12:30

Jerry Guo, Frankfurt School

In this session, students will be exposed to practicalities of manuscript writing and the review process. This is a hands-on session where students will write mock referee reports on one another's work and prepare response letters to those reports. Special attention will be paid to 1) representing theoretical contributions and 2) writing up experimental results for publication.

CET 12:30

Course Speakers

Students will present their proposed experimental design and receive feedback from EOS senior members.