What makes experiments organizational?

Our website suggest five diagnostic criteria. Phanish Puranam discusses lab experiments aimed at understanding real organizations (presentation and recording). Roberto Weber more generally discusses experimentation with regard to economic entities (presentation).

 

One, two, three...many?

Ozgecan Kocak and Massimo Warglien debate what makes a group and, by extension, an organization (presentation).

 

Organizational stimuli

Marlo Raveendran lays out the challenges of trying to capture rich organizational contexts in the lab (recording).

 

Design simplicity

Gael Le Mens makes the case for stripping organizational phenomena down to the theoretically most parsimonous representation (presentation).

 

Graduate syllabi

The EOS crowdsourcing effort documents the state of experimental teaching at top business schools (presentation).

Integrative design

Abdullah Almaatouq walks us through a systematic approach to the cumulative challenge in behavioral science (recording, and underlying paper).

 

Multiple studies

Oliver Schilke tackles the pros and cons of the trend towards multiple studies per article (presentation and recording).

 

Participant priors

Ronald Klingebiel illustrates what you need to ensure to confidently attribute a manipulation effect to your proposed mechanism (presentation).

 

Virtual confederates

The EOS crowdsourcing effort documents dos and donts for using bots in experimental work (presentation).

 

Subject pools

The EOS crowdsourcing effort reviews available platforms ranging from onlinge gig workers to students and domain experts in the lab (presentation).

CPT models

Thorsten Pachur uses cumulative prospect theory to model and compare decision making by groups and individuals (presentation).

 

Probabilistic beliefs

Cedric Gutierrez walks us through the difference between reported and revealed beliefs about verifiable events (presentation, and recording).

 

Managerial cognition

Daniella Laureiro Martinez discusses options for the design of measures for capturing cognition in managerial tasks (presentation, and recording).

Nudge adoption

Stefano Dellavigna traces evidence of RCTs being adopted in city administration (presentation, and underlying paper).

 

Collaborative reproduction

Ali Ozkes reports on the Management Science initiative on esnuring reproducibility (recording, and underlying paper).

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