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Phanish Puranam, Insead
Massimo Warglien, Ca' Foscari

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. Strategy 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, organization learning, crowdsourcing, organizational culture or human-algorithm collaboration. Or any other study linking the behavior of individuals to outcomes at the organizational level.

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Ronald Klingebiel, Frankfurt School
Franziska Lauenstein, KLU Hamburg

Though the field of strategy and organization has seen plenty of experimental papers, few go beyond individuals as the level of analysis. Those that do tend to adopt a search (multi-armed bandit) or teams (hidden profile) paradigm, for example. Variation is large. We encourage exploration of stimuli and suggest that it might be too early to settle on workhorses. We do, however, strongly encourage greater borrowing from neighboring disciplines when it comes to basic handicraft issues. Elicitation, incentivization, and participant priors are quick-win areas of improvement.

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Ido Erev, Technion

The description-experience gap refers to a context difference in how people weight tail risks. It matters whether they read about them or go through them. For strategy practitioners, few decision options come with stated probabilities. Better understanding how experience shapes risk taking thus seems key, considering that much insight from decision science is based on description. Ido Erev reports on observations in studies and tournaments he conducted, with a particular focus on how monetary compensation impacts behavior.

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Onurcan Yılmaz, Kadir Has

Whether participants report or reveal preferences makes a difference. Someone's statement of a hypothetical response to a competitor's move, leadership wrongdoing, or compensation systems, for example, may not tell us much about what a person would do if s/he actually faced such situations. Local expert Onurcan Yılmaz reports on his experience with experiments on moral judgment, particularly on how the Oxford utilitarianism scale predicts actual utilitarian decisions in trolley problems and the like.

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Deniz Tosun, Hepsijet
Akin Arslan, Tirport

As CTO of Hepsiburada's delivery unit, Denis Tosun reports on designing and conducting controlled experiments on incentive design for couriers. Akin Arslan, chairman of logistics-software provider Tirport, reflects on the representiveness of such efforts in the Turkish business landscape and beyond.

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Ronald Klingebiel, Frankfurt School
Gaël Le Mens, Frankfurt School
Sheen Levine, UT Dallas
Phanish Puranam, Insead
Massimo Warglien, Ca' Foscari

Weigh in on the future direction of the field. Challenge our speakers or the field more generally. Engage with the crowd-sourcing efforts of Experimental Organizational Science community.

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