CET 14:00-17:00

Thorsten Wahle, Skema

This session introduces the course structure and expectations. We will go over some basics of experimental research in the organizational context. I will then outline the process of designing an experimental stimulus using a preregistration document as a template. Our baselining will conclude with a discussion of power, ex-ante analysis, and sampling strategy.

CET 14:00-15:30

Christian Troester, KLU Hamburg

In tthis session, Christian Troester (KLU) lays out the design of effective control conditions for experiments in organization science.

CET 14:00-17:00

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 14:00-17:00

Phanish Puranam, Insead
Thorsten Wahle, Skema

The first half of this session reviews how 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.
The second half of this session surveys the different literatures within organization research that use lab or online experiments

CET 14:00-17:00

Thorsten Wahle, Insead
Oana Vuculescu, Aarhus

In the first half of this sessions, we go through common organizational task paradigms. The goal is to give you an opportunity to identify the right task format for your own research question. In the second half, we zoom in on example tasks for studying micro-foundations of organizational search.

CET 14:00-17:00

Thorsten Wahle, Skema

We go through the steps of programming and hosting an experiment online. We use oTree and Prolific as examples. This is to help you surmount the practical barriers of programming simple online experiments.

CET 14:00-17:00

Jerry Guo, Frankfurt School

Many experiments require more control than an online format allows. Preventing access to ground truth, ensuring focussed attention, or multi-player interactions are just a few reasons. This session wlaks you through lab particulars.

CET 14:00-17:00

Thorsten Wahle, Skema

We use the experiments we developed in the two previous sessions and analyze some pretest data focusing on the most common and emerging forms of analysis.

CET 14:00-15:30

Course Speakers

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