Events
Events
Events
Events
Thursday 18 November 2021, 13.00 - 14.30 | Dr Colleen Cunningham from London Business School | Kolade Teaching Room, Building: one | RMC Training 'Finite Mixture Methods'. Colleen will use this NBER working paper as a foundation for the lesson |
Thursday 18 November 2021, 14.30 - 16.00 | Dr Colleen Cunningham from London Business School | The Matrix Lecture Theatre, Building: one |
Seminar 'Keeping Invention confidential'. ABSTRACT: This study investigates use of a prevalent but rarely studied form of intellectual property protection: trade secrets. Building off existing survey evidence of firm-level, cross-sectional use of secrecy, we document the effect of stronger legal trade secret protection on the use of trade secrets, and the rate and nature of secret innovation. Our setting is the US oil and gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking) industry, from 2013 to 2018, in states where firms are required to disclose fracking ingredients to regulators barring substantiated claims of trade secrets. We examine how the enactment of the federal 2016 Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) affects well-level trade secret use across states with varying levels of pre-DTSA trade secret protection. We find substantial increases in the use of secrets, the generation of new secrets, the use of both external and internal secrets, and breadth of secret invention, as well as complexity. Our results provide rare systematic empirical evidence on actual trade secret use and document how stronger formal appropriability shapes secret innovation.
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Check this page for information on general events. Refer to the page on workshops specifically for workshops.
Previous events
Date | Event | Venue | Notes |
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Tuesday, 3 March 2020 | Academy of Management Discoveries (AMD) Paper development workshop |
Bateman Lecture Theatre |
AMD provides a unique opportunity to receive feedback on your work in preparation for potential submission, as well as discuss empirically-driven research. This workshop will be delivered by Professor Peter Bamberger (University of Tel-Aviv) the Chief Editor of Academy of Management Discoveries. Prof. Bamberger is a Simon I. Domberger Chaired Professor of Management and Organizations at Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University and has previously served as an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal. |
Wednesday, 19 February 2020 |
“Publishing Qualitative Research in Top-tier Journals” by Jamie Ladge (Northeastern) |
Streatham Court B |
Jamie J. Ladge is a Patrick F. and Helen C. Walsh Research Professor in Management and Organizational Development at D’Amore-McKim School of Business faculty, Northeastern University. She has published qualitative papers in a variety of leading academic and practitioner journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Harvard Business Review, among others. |
Tuesday, 4 February 2020 |
Endogeneity in mediation analysis |
Streatham Court B |
These sessions will be delivered by Professor John Antonakis (University of Lausanne). John is a Professor of Organizational Behavior, and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Management in the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Prof. Antonakis is Editor in Chief of The Leadership Quarterly (ABS4) and is on the boards of several top journals including the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Management. |
Three days: From Monday, 3 June, 2019-Tuesday, 4 June, 2019 |
Relational Event Models for the Analysis of Social Networks |
Streatham Court |
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce relational event models (REMs) - a newly derived class of statistical models that may be adopted to study network systems of repeated interaction. Throughout the workshop, participants will have an opportunity to gain practical experience through hands-on analysis of relational event models using the freely available software package eventnet1. Illustrative examples and data will be drawn from active empirical research projects on the dynamics of peer-production, interorganizational coordination, and team assembly. |
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 9.30-11 | Quantitative Research Design in Practice (Click for more details) |
University of Exeter Business School Building One - Syndicate Room B |
Panelists will provide a brief presentation on their experience with quantitative research design and the challenges and decisions they’ve experienced followed by an open discussion among the panelists and audience. This event will be open to all staff and PhD students, but targeted to members of SITE and Management. Seating is limited, so please let Lauren know if you plan to attend (L.A.Witkin@exeter.ac.uk). |
A key element of the RMC's mission is to provide hands-on workshops with experts in their fields. The workshops are initially offered to staff members and graduate students of the Business School, and, in many cases, are opened to the rest of the university if there is room.
Upcoming workshops
Presenter(s) |
Date |
Time |
Workshop |
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Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca (Umass-Amherst/DRP)
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20 January 2022 |
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Social Network Analysis |
27 January 2022 |
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3 Feburary 2022 |
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Claudio Panico (Bocconi) |
22-23 Feburary 2022 |
Formal Modeling for Management |
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Denisa Mindruta (HEC Paris) |
23-24 March 2022 |
Econometrics of Matching Games |
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Felix Vardy (IMF) |
28 March 2022 |
Policy Careers |
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3 April 2022 |
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Joerg Claussen (LMU) | 4-6 April 2022 | Webcrawling with Python | |
Chris Rider (Michigan) | 4-5 May 2022 | Numerical Narratives | |
Elena Spatoulas Patel (Utah) | 22-26 May 2022 | Intermediate Econometrics II | |
Markus Fitza (Frankfurt School) | 14 June 2022 | ||
Herman Aguinis | 27-28 June 2022 | Open Science |
Previous workshops
Presenter(s) |
Date |
Time |
Workshop |
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Niels Van Quaquebeke |
5 January 2021 |
2:00 to 3:00pm |
Respectful inquiry: The story and the story behind the story |
Hannes Leroy |
6 January 2021 |
3:00 to 4:00pm |
Story behind the paper: Publishing in Journal of Applied Psychology |
Berrin Erdogan |
7 January 2021 |
2:00 to 4:00pm |
Story behind the paper: How to respond to reviewer comments |
Tom Vanacker |
14 January 2021 |
2:00 to 4:00pm |
How to frame papers that draw data from financial databases |
Priya Kannan, Ronit Kark |
27 January 2021 |
2:30 to 4:00pm |
Action research and taking research into practice |
Jessica Methot, Jill Perry-Smith, Stefano Tasselli |
3 Feburary 2021 |
2:30 to 4:00pm (Panel Workshop) |
Tips on writing theory papers |
Jamie Ladge |
9 Feburary 2021 |
2:30 to 3.30pm |
Developing interview protocols |
Joe Labianca |
18 Feburary 2021 |
2:00 to 4:00pm |
Tips on being a reviewer |
Alessandro Lomi |
26 Feburary 2021 |
3:00 to 4:00pm |
Best practices in network modelling |
Ana Ortiz de Guinea Lopez de Arana |
2 March 2021 |
1:30 to 3:30pm |
Topic TBC, probably meta-analysis |
Ana Ortiz de Guinea Lopez de Arana |
3 March 2021 |
2:30 to 4:00pm |
Topic TBC, probably meta-analysis |
Joe Labianca, Stefano Tasselli |
9 March 2021 |
1:00 to 3:30pm |
Research design and action research within organizations |
Hannes Leroy |
25 March 2021 |
3:00 to 4:00pm |
How to frame and develop a literature review |
Gabriel Katz |
29 March 2021 |
9:00am to 5:00pm |
R training (part 1) |
Gabriel Katz |
30 March 2021 |
9:00am to 5:00pm |
R training (part 2) |
Ben Meehan |
31 March 2021 |
9:00am to 5:00pm |
NVIVO training (part 1) |
Ben Meehan |
01 April 2021 |
9:00am to 5:00pm |
NVIVO training (part 2) |
Iulia Cioroianu (Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath) |
01 April 2021 |
Introduction to Python |
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Iulia Cioroianu (Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath) | 02 April 2021 |
Language Processing / Machine learning in Python |
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Ben Meehan (QDATRAINING Ltd) | 03 April 2021 |
Introduction to Nvivo
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Iulia Cioroianu |
22 April 2021 |
9:00am to 5:00pm |
Python training (part 1) |
Iulia Cioroianu |
23 April 2021 |
9:00am to 5:00pm |
Python training (part 2) |
Jonas Lang |
4 May 2021 |
1:30 to 3:30pm |
Multilevel models (basic) |
Jonas Lang |
11 May 2021 |
1:30 to 3:30pm |
Multilevel models (intermediate 1) |
Jonas Lang |
18 May 2021 |
1:30 to 3:30pm |
Multilevel models (intermediate 2) |
Jonas Lang |
25 May 2021 |
1:30 to 3:30pm |
Multilevel models (advanced) |
Jonas Lang (Ghent/DRP) |
13 September 2021 |
Structural Equation Modeling |
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Greg Molecke |
11 October 2021 |
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Herman Aguinis (George Washington/DRP) |
25 October 2021 |
Management Theory Development | |
Colleen Cunningham (LBS) |
15 November 2021 |
Finite mixture models | |
Elena Spatoulas Patel |
22-23 November 2021 |
Intermediate Econmetrics |
Presenter(s) |
Date |
Time |
Workshop |
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John Antonakis (Editor-in-chief: The Leadership Quarterly) |
4 Feburary 2020 |
The Endogeneity problem in mediation analysis Random effects assumption in multilevel models |
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Gabriel Katz (Q-Step Centre, University of Exeter) | 30 March 2020 |
Introduction to R/ Regression analysis in R (Stata) |
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Gabriel Katz (Q-Step Centre, University of Exeter) |
31 March 2020 |
Factor analysis / Structural equation modelling in R (Stata) |
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Jill Perry Smith, Berrin Erdogan |
30 September 2020 |
Jill: 2:30 to 3:10pm, Berrin: 3:20 to 4:00pm |
Meet the editor: Insights from an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Journal and Editor-in-Chief of Personnel Psychology Our first Research Methods Centre workshop will feature two of our Distinguished Research Professors. Jill Perry-Smith was an Associate Editor, Academy of Management Journal (2016-2019), and has been a board member of Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Journal. Jill will present ideas on how to tackle journal revisions and common reasons that articles get rejected and how to address them. There will be the opportunity to ask questions at the end. Berrin Erdogan is the Editor-in-Chief of Personnel Psychology. Berrin will provide information about publishing in Personnel Psychology. These unique insights are relevant for publishing in other psychology and management journals. The talk will contain tips relating to idea generation, research design, writing, and revising articles to increase success in the publication process. There will be the opportunity to ask questions at the end. |
Jessica Methot, Jamie Ladge |
06 October 2020 |
2:00pm to 3:30pm (Panel Workshop) |
Practical implications of research and getting media attention An important element of our job as academics is to conduct research that builds and extends knowledge of a vast range of management-oriented phenomena. However, some scholars struggle to understand the practical significance of their work and how to translate and disseminate their research to practitioners. This presentation is designed to help scholars talk about the relevance of their work to non-academic audiences – including practice-based business magazines and journals as well as the popular press. Professors Ladge and Methot will describe their experiences sharing their research with these various outlets. They will discuss approaches to writing and connecting with practitioner audiences, and methods of “translating” academic insights in ways that spark interest with practicing managers. They will also offer strategies for how to leverage the use of practice-oriented writings and media attention (e.g. for classroom use, research, and/or to gain credibility in the field). |
Markus Fitza |
15 October 2020 |
2:30 to 4:00pm |
Current approaches to publishing quantitative analysis (e.g., replication, p-values) In recent years a variety of voices raised concerns about the reproducibility of results in management studies (e.g., Banks et al.,2016; Bettis, 2012; Bettis, Helfat, and Shaver, 2016; Goldfarb and King, 2016). These concerns echo a discussion in other scientific fields. For example, Ioannidis (2005) estimates that more than 50% of studies in the clinical sciences may be false positives (type I errors) and will thus not reproduce. At the core of this discussion are concerned about how traditional statistical model fitting techniques are used in management research. But progress has already been made, for example, the Strategic Management Journal dropped the practice of using p-value cutoffs and now encourages replications. In this workshop, I will discuss some of the issues underlying this discussion, what suggestions have been made to tackle the problem and what the emerging changes in various journals mean for our research practice. |
Tom Vanacker |
22 October 2020 |
2:00 to 4:00pm |
Creative use of databases (relevant to HR, finance, entrepreneurship, organisational behaviour) Scholars in a wide range of fields often focus on publicly traded firms—generally pushed by data availability. While publicly traded firms were all once young, small, and privately held, we cannot simply generalize what we know from publicly traded firms to privately held firms. Moreover, privately held firms represent 97.5% of all incorporated entities in the United Kingdom. Data availability (and quality) related to privately held firms has increased dramatically in recent years. In this seminar, I will discuss some interesting databases on privately-held firms; how they might be used to develop new theory; highlight common (sometimes false) critiques on these databases; and, how they might be used creatively (based on my own experience) to get published in a broad range of journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of World Business. |
Nils Van Quaquebeke, Jonas Lang |
29 October 2020 |
2:30 to 4:00pm (Panel Workshop) |
Meet the editor: Beyond the questionnaire at Leadership Quarterly and insights from the publication process at Journal of Applied Psychology and Organizational Research Methods The Journal of Applied Psychology and The Leadership Quarterly are top journals in management and applied psychology. Join this Q&A session with Jonas W. Lang (Associate Editor at JAP) and Niels Van Quaquebeke (Senior Associate Editor at LQ) and ask them everything you always wanted to know about how best to navigate the publication process in these journals? What do the editors look for in manuscripts? What can you as a submitter do to increase the likelihood of your manuscript getting into review and ultimately accepted? This session is yours. So take ownership. A week before a slid.do link will be posted here where you can (anonymously) post your questions. |
Markus Fitza |
05 October 2020 |
2:30 to 4:00pm |
Variance decomposition analysis Variance decomposition is frequently used in management research. It is usually used to determine the impact of a given effect class on a dependent variable. An example might be useful to illustrate the utility of this approach relative to more conventional approaches such as linear regression: One use of variance decomposition in management studies was to determine the importance of CEOs for firm performance (e.g., Ahn et al., 2004; Lieberson and O'Connor, 1972; Mackey, 2008; Thomas, 1988; Wasserman et al., 2001). While some studies try to answer this question by analyzing the performance effect of certain CEO characteristics (such as age, experience or education etc…) a variance decomposition follows a more general approach. Because CEO characteristics are a complex set of features, some of which can increase performance while others can decrease it, it is difficult to determine the overall magnitude of the impact of CEOs with a regression analysis that uses proxies for the full set of all possible underlying CEO features that may affect performance. Rather a variance decomposition study of CEO influence captures the performance effect of CEOs in its totality. Instead of asking which features of a CEO effect firm performance it asks what is the overall impact of CEOs. This approach helps to answer a fundamental question: If we want to understand differences in firm performance, how much can studies of for example CEOs help us towards that goal? In the past this approach was use to measure the impact of a variety of effect classes on firm performance such as the effect of industry, region, corporate parent, business group, CEOs, VCs, etc. While performance is usually the main dependent variable of interest variance decomposition can also be used to investigate alternative DVs, for example to estimate how much certain effect classes influence the degree of diversification or M&A activities. In this workshop I will discuss the use of variance decomposition in management research: What types of research questions it can help answer, various methodological approaches, and how one can manage the review process for variance decomposition paper given that the method is not necessarily known to all reviewers. |
Anthony Heyes |
12 November 2020 |
2:30 to 4:00pm |
Research design for causal inference: Methods from economics for non-economists (part 1) Much empirical research coming out of business schools presents evidence of correlation (X is associated with Y) but is written up in a way that implies a causal relationship (X causes Y). Economics has moved decisively away from correlational analysis towards methods that explicitly allow for causal inference. Much of this work is very creative, making clever use of ‘natural experiments’. Now the norm in economics, such designs are increasingly prominent in top journals in other business school disciplines. The presentation will sketch the methods (IV, RDD and DiD) in a non-technical manner and explore how they might make your own empirical research more marketable. Focus will be on research design – setting up a study that has causal interpretability “baked in” from the start – and we will touch on lots of examples. The talks are mainly for people less familiar with these approaches, but everyone is welcome. |
Anthony Heyes |
19 November 2020 |
2:30 to 4:00pm |
Research design for causal inference: Methods from economics for non-economists (part 2) Much empirical research coming out of business schools presents evidence of correlation (X is associated with Y) but is written up in a way that implies a causal relationship (X causes Y). Economics has moved decisively away from correlational analysis towards methods that explicitly allow for causal inference. Much of this work is very creative, making clever use of ‘natural experiments’. Now the norm in economics, such designs are increasingly prominent in top journals in other business school disciplines. The presentation will sketch the methods (IV, RDD and DiD) in a non-technical manner and explore how they might make your own empirical research more marketable. Focus will be on research design – setting up a study that has causal interpretability “baked in” from the start – and we will touch on lots of examples. The talks are mainly for people less familiar with these approaches, but everyone is welcome. |
Priya Kannan |
25 November 2020 |
3:00 to 4:00pm |
Developing research questions and construct clarity Theoretically, how individuals reconstruct available resources to effect new opportunities has been at the heart of entrepreneurship and innovation research for the past two decades (e.g. Baker and Nelson, 2005, Feldman, 2004; Feldman and Worline, 2011, Garud and Karnoe, 2003). Practically, nothing highlights the need to reconstruct resources quickly and effectively to pursue new opportunities such as unexpected crises, the most recent case being the pandemic. Entrepreneurial firms, as well as, large organizations swiftly reconfigured their resources and shifted them to pursue new entrepreneurial opportunities brought forth by the pandemic. For example, General Motors swiftly reconfigured their resources and shifted them to producing ventilators while some award winning, high end dining restaurants foresaw new opportunities in burgers, take outs, and reconfigured resources to pursue these unexpected opportunities. Resource reconstruction is addressed by several terms such as effectuation (Sarasvathy, 2001), bricolage (Baker &Nelson, 2005), and resourcing (Feldman, 2004) and others. Based on a working paper, the purpose of this talk is to delineate the differences in how resources can be understood and constructed differently based on the phenomenon that is under consideration. |
Ronit Kark |
01 December 2020 |
1:00 to 2:00pm |
Publishing qualitative research: Success, rejections and lessons learned |
Giuseppe Cavaliere |
08 December 2020 |
1:00 to 3:30pm |
Bootstrap methods for economists (part 1) |
Presenter(s) |
Date |
Time |
Workshop |
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Iulia Cioroianu, University of Bath |
1 April 2019 |
Introduction to Python |
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Iulia Cioroianu, University of Bath |
2 April 2019 |
Collecting and analysing social media data using Python Required: Intro to Python |
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Eva Neitzert, London School of Economics and Just Economics |
3 April 2019 |
Evaluation and impact assessment |
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Julian Jamison, University of Exeter, Economics |
4 April 2019 |
Experimental methods |
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Pikakshi Manchanda, CSAM, University of Exeter |
5 April 2019 |
Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python Required: Intro to Python |
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Ben Meehan, QDA Training |
8 April 2019 |
Introduction to NVivo |
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Ben Meehan, QDA Training |
9 April 2019 |
NVivo Underway – analysing your data NVivo Required: Intro NVivo. Max 16 people |
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Gabriel Katz, Q-Step Centre, University of Exeter |
10 April 2019 |
Multilevel Models in R and Stata |
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Gabriel Katz, Q-Step Centre, University of Exeter | 11 April 2019 | Bayesian Statistics in R and Stata | |
Lakshmi Balachandran Nair, University of Utrecht | 12 April 2019 | Case Study Research Design | |
Iulia Cioroianu (University of Bath) |
8 July 2019 |
Online surveys in Qualtrics, survey experiments, and causal inference |
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Lakshmi Balachandran Nair (University of Utrecht) | 9 July 2019 | Introduction to Grounded theory | |
Alasdair Jones (London School of Economics) | 10 July 2019 | Participant observation | |
Alasdair Jones (London School of Economics) | 11 July 2019 | Approaches in qualitative evaluation | |
Houston Lester (Baylor College of Medicine) | 12 July 2019 | Longitudinal Analysis in R | |
Mike Gill (University of Oxford) |
9 September 2019 |
Of qualitative methods and phenomenology (Canceled) |
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Jeremy Dawson (University of Sheffield) | 10 September 2019 | Mediation and moderation | |
Lorien Jasny (Q-Step Centre, University of Exeter) | 11 September 2019 | Introduction to social network analysis | |
Lorien Jasny (Q-Step Centre, University of Exeter) | 12 September 2019 |
Intermediate social network analysis Required: Intro to Social Network Analysis |
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Pikakshi Manchanda (CSAM, University of Exeter) | 13 September 2019 |
Advanced NLP and Machine Learning for text analysis Required: Intro to Python |
Title |
Presenter |
Qualitative Research Design | Nelson Phillips |
Introduction to R (group 1) | Iulia Cioroianu |
Introduction to R (group 2) | Gabriel Katz |
Structural Equation Modelling | Gabriel Katz |
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) | Sean White |