Online Program	Session Type: PDW Workshop Program Session: 135 | Submission: 10451 | Sponsor(s): (RM, IM, OB, OMT, STR) Scheduled: Friday, Aug 9 2019 11:30AM - 1:30PM at Boston Hynes Convention Center in 208   Natural Experiments in Management Research: A Hands-on Introduction and Paper Development Workshop Natural Experiments in Management Research	View Map
Organizer: Jost Sieweke, Vrije U. Amsterdam Organizer: John Antonakis, Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), U. of Lausanne Presenter: Simone Santoni, Cass Business School, City U. London Presenter: Mary-Hunter McDonnell, The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Presenter: Michael C. Withers, Texas A&M U. Facilitator: Nicolas Bastardoz, U. of Zurich Facilitator: Philippe Jacquart, EMLYON Business School Facilitator: Paulo Arvate, FGV-EAESP
The question of causality lies at the heart of research in management and organization studies (MOS). However, studies often fail to identify causal relationships, because they are plagued by endogeneity. Whereas randomized experiments represent the “gold standard” to establish causal relationships, they are seldom used because it is oftentimes difficult to randomly assign treatment to individuals or organizations. To overcome this problem, researchers in disciplines such as economics and political science have turned towards “natural experiments,” which refer to situations in which exogenous factors (e.g., natural disaster, regulatory changes) “as-if” randomly assign a treatment to subjects. Because of the as-if randomization, researchers are able to draw conclusions about the causal relationship between the treatment and the outcome. Despite the benefits of natural experiments, they have received little attention in MOS. Researchers thus pass up the chance to test causal relationships in field settings. This PDW has two goals: First, given the high interest in last year’s PDW, our goal is to provide participants basic knowledge about natural experiments. For this reason, we will introduce the most common designs (i.e., the difference-in- difference, regression discontinuity, and instrumental variable design) and explain how participants can apply them. Second, our goal is to support participants who are using natural experiments in their research by providing feedback to their projects to help them to further improve their use of natural experiments.
Participants can register for the second part of the workshop (paper development workshop) by sending a summary paper (max 4 pages all inclusive, double spaced) by July 15, 2019, to Jost Sieweke (j.sieweke@vu.nl).
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