Best Practices for Reliable Research

The following presentations from academic journal editors, university faculty members, academic researchers, industry leaders and students, present best practices and suggestions for how to create robust and reliable research. Browse the variety of topics, speaker biographies and additional information.

Robustness and Reliability in Web Data Analytics

Nan Zhang Co-Director of Privacy + Analytics Lab (PAL) Professor of Information Sciences and Technology College of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 814-863-9463 Email Nan Dr. Nan Zhang is a Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Penn State, he was [...]

Open Data + Robust Workflow: Towards Reproducible Empirical Research on Organic Data

Heng Xu Co-Director of Privacy + Analytics Lab (PAL) Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology College of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Phone: (814) 867-0469 Email Heng Heng’s Website Dr. Heng Xu is an associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State. She is the [...]

Robustness and Reliability in the Analysis of Count Data

Deepak Somaya Associate Professor and Stephen and Christy King Faculty Fellow Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Director of Graduate Studies (Business Administration) Academic Director, Illinois Consulting Academy Associate Professor, College of Law Phone: 217-333-6873 Email Deepak Deepak’s Website Deepak Somaya is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and the Stephen [...]

Using Formal Models to Study Strategy and Organizations

Felipe Csaszar Associate Professor of Strategy University of Michigan Ross School of Business 701 Tappan Street #R4336 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234 Phone: (734) 615 4854 Email Felipe Felipe’s Website Felipe Csaszar is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. His research focuses on how managers’ mental representations and [...]

Resampling Methods: Resting Robustness and Reliability (but Really Replicability)

Paul D. Bliese Editor, Organizational Research Methods Professor, Department of Management Darla Moore School of Business University of South Carolina 1014 Greene Street Columbia, SC 29208 Phone: 803-777-5957 Email Paul Paul’s Website Paul D. Bliese received a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University and a B.A. from Texas Lutheran University. After graduating in 1991, he worked [...]

The Reproducibility of Empirical Management Research: Tests, Applications, and Recommendations

Donald D. Bergh Endowed Chair Department of Management University of Denver Denver, CO 80208 Phone: 303-871-2489 Email Donald Donald’s Website Donald D. Bergh is the Louis D. Beaumont Chair of Business Administration and Professor of Management at the Daniels College of Business of the University of Denver. He previously served on the faculties of Purdue, [...]

How Computation Models Can Facilitate Robust Theory Development, Testing, and Implementation in Organization Science

Jeffrey B. Vancouver Professor Byham Chair in Industrial/Organizational Psychology Porter Hall 221 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 Phone: 740-593-1071 Email Jeffrey Jeffrey’s Website Jeffrey B. Vancouver is Byham Chair for Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Ohio University. He received his degree in 1989 from Michigan State University (Department of Psychology). He studies the dynamics underlying human motivation [...]

The Advantages of Starting with Theory: Addressing the Issue of HARKing

Jason Shaw Yeung Kin Man Professor in Business Administration Chair Professor of Management and Head of Department Director, Centre for Leadership and Innovation Department of Management & Marketing Hong Kong Polytechnic University Phone: 852-2766-7383 Email Jason Jason’s Website Jason D. Shaw is Yeung Kin Man Professor in Business Administration, Chair Professor of Management, Head of [...]

Causal Identification through a Cumulative Body of Research

J. Myles Shaver Endowed Chair Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship Pond Family Chair in the Teaching and Advancement of Free Enterprise Principles Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: 612- 625-1824 Email J. Myles J. Myles’ Website Myles Shaver is Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School [...]

External Validity and the Replication Crisis: Reflections on the Replication Corner

John Lynch Endowed Chair Director of Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making Associate Dean & Ted Anderson Professor University of Colorado Leeds School of Business, 419 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0419 Phone: 303-492-8413 Email John John’s Website John G. Lynch, Jr. is the Ted Andersen Professor of Free Enterprise at the Leeds School of [...]