Please join us for our PDW on conducting experiments to advance entrepreneurship research, co-sponsored by the RM, STR, and TIM divisions.
You can suggest additional questions to be discussed at the PDW.
Building an Interactive Community for Conducting Experiments to Advance Entrepreneurship Research
Date: Saturday, August 11
Time: 4:15 ??? 6:15 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency Chicago in Plaza B
Details: This two-hour workshop focuses on best practices for designing and conducting experiments that can advance entrepreneurship research. The PDW fosters the actual use of experimental methods by entrepreneurship, innovation and managerial sciences scholars, with a hands-on workshop where participants discuss how to address the challenges they face with experts who have published experiments in entrepreneurship. This PDW continues a sequence of two successful PDWs from 2016 (???Publishing entrepreneurship research using experimental methods???) and 2017 (???Are you experimented? Conducting experiments for advancing entrepreneurship research???).
The focus of the PDW this year will be on engagement with those interested in doing experiments in entrepreneurship so as to further develop a research community of individuals conducting experiments in entrepreneurship. The agenda with the fixed anchor topics and a list of flexible topics can be found below and online via
tinyurl.com/AOM2018ExpEnt, where updates can be found. To increase relevance and further the interactive nature of the PDW, we welcome participants to select a topic or propose another topic of their interest by emailing:
aom2018pdw@urbig.org. If you have a particular question or case at hand, feel free to send us a brief (no more than one page) description by July 31st so that we can provide a better prepared response for the round table discussion. Your feedback will help us evaluate the potential interest in topics and thus allocate researchers and experts to particular topics. Those who have emailed their specific questions/suggestions in advance will be ensured a seat in the PDW in case the room is full.
Part I: Experiments and Entrepreneurship Research
????????? Introduction
????????? Key issues observed by the editors of the
JBV special issue on experiments in entrepreneurship research
Part II: Interactive Round Table Discussions
This part consists of three rounds, each emphasizing a different general field of questions. The lists reflect potential topics, which we intend to refine based on feedback from potential participants (please email:
aom2018pdw@urbig.org)
Round 1: Embarking on Experimental Research Conversations ????????? Designing Research Questions for Experiments (Dawn DeTienne)
????????? Navigating the Institutional Review Board (or equivalent) Process (Kelly Shaver)
????????? Causality slipping away: On pitfalls of experimental entrepreneurship research (Diemo Urbig)
????????? Mixed-Method Experiments with Multiple Manipulations (Rob Mitchell)
????????? Additional topics to be refined based on proposals from potential participants: Qualtrics (and using electronic data collection instruments), Pre-registering of Designs and Expected Analyses, Running Experiments without University Lab Facilities
Round 2: Experiment Design Conversations ????????? Manipulations (Scenario, Text, and Video)?? (Dan Hsu)
????????? Manipulations (Priming) (Magdalena Cholakova)
????????? Conjoint (Matt Wood)
????????? Additional topics to be refined based on proposals from potential participants: Task Feedback Manipulation, Sample Selection and Recruitment, Issues when manipulating latent variables (e.g., deliberation), Role-playing Experiments
Round 3: Experiment Operationalization and Analysis ????????? Within- and Between Subject Designs (Dan Lerner)
????????? Validating Research Materials and Manipulation Checks (Denis Gr??goire)
????????? Multi-Level Data Structure and Analysis (Dave Williams)
????????? Additional topics to be refined based on proposals from potential participants: Field Experiments, Measured variables as independent, mediating, or moderating variables, Control Conditions
Part III: Panel Discussion with Audience Question ????????? Insights from conversations
????????? Experts from each table
????????? Audience questions
Organizers: Rob Mitchell, Colorado State U.
Magdalena Cholakova, Erasmus U. Rotterdam
Dan K. Hsu, Appalachian State U.
Daniel Lerner, U. de Deusto
Diemo Urbig, U. of Wuppertal
Panel Discussants:
Magdalena Cholakova, Erasmus U. Rotterdam
Dawn DeTienne, Colorado State U.
Denis A. Gregoire, HEC Montreal
Dan K. Hsu, Appalachian State U.
Daniel Lerner, U. de Deusto
Rob Mitchell, Colorado State U.
Kelly G. Shaver, College of Charleston
Diemo Urbig, U. of Wuppertal
David W. Williams, U. of Tennessee
Matthew Steven Wood, Baylor U.