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SEM 706

Seminar in Quantitative Research Methods

3 units

Winter 2025

Readings

  • Cornelissen, J., Höllerer, M. A., & Seidl, D. (2021). What theory is and can be: Forms of theorizing in organizational scholarship. Organization Theory, 2(3), 26317877211020328
    required
  • Edmondson, A. C., & McManus, S. E. (2007). Methodological fit in management field research. Academy of Management Review, 32(4), 1246-1264
    required
  • Mantere, S., & Ketokivi, M. (2013). Reasoning in organization science. Academy of Management Review, 38(1), 70-89
    required
  • Wellman, N., Tröster, C., Grimes, M., Roberson, Q., Rink, F., & Gruber, M. (2023). Publishing multimethod research in AMJ: A review and best-practice recommendations. Academy of Management Journal, 66(4), 1007-1015
    required
  • Tavory, I., & Timmermans, S. 2014. Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research. University Of Chicago Press
    recommended
  • Lounsbury, M. & Gehman, J. 2024. A Concise Introduction to Organization Theory: From Ontological Differences to Robust Identities. Edward Elgar
    recommended
  • Cornelissen, J. P., & Durand, R. (2014). Moving forward: Developing theoretical contributions in management studies. Journal of Management Studies, 51(6), 995-1022
    required
  • Davis, G. F., & Marquis, C. (2005). Prospects for organization theory in the early twenty-first century: Institutional fields and mechanisms. Organization Science, 16(4), 332-343
    required
  • Gangl, M. (2010). Causal inference in sociological research. Annual Review of Sociology, 36, 21-47
    required
  • Hedström, P., & Ylikoski, P. (2010). Causal mechanisms in the social sciences. Annual Review of Sociology, 36, 49-67
    required
  • Miller, K. D., & Tsang, E. W. (2011). Testing management theories: critical realist philosophy and research methods. Strategic Management Journal, 32(2), 139-158
    required
  • Suddaby, R. (Ed.). (2010). Editor's comments: Construct clarity in theories of management and organization. Academy of Management Review, 35(3), 346-357
    required
  • Whetten, David A. "What constitutes a theoretical contribution?" Academy of Management Review 14.4 (1989): 490-495
    required
  • Certo, S. T., & Semadeni, M. (2006). Strategy research and panel data: Evidence and implications. Journal of Management, 32(3), 449-471
    required
  • Greve, H. R., & Goldeng, E. (2004). Longitudinal analysis in strategic management. Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, 1, 135-163
    required
  • Halaby, C. N. (2004). Panel models in sociological research: Theory into practice. Annual Review of Sociology, 30, 507-544
    required
  • Chin, M. K., Hambrick, D. C., & Treviño, L. K. (2013). Political Ideologies of CEOs The Influence of Executives’ Values on Corporate Social Responsibility. Administrative Science Quarterly, 58(2), 197-232
    required
  • required
  • Hoetker, G. (2007). The use of logit and probit models in strategic management research: Critical issues. Strategic Management Journal, 28(4), 331-343
    required
  • Petersen, T. (1985). A comment on presenting results from logit and probit models. American Sociological Review, 50(1), 130-131
    required
  • Henisz, W. J., Zelner, B. A., & Guillén, M. F. (2005). The worldwide diffusion of market- oriented infrastructure reform, 1977–1999. American Sociological Review, 70(6), 871-897
    required
  • Jennings, J. E., Jennings, P. D., & Sharifian, M. (2014). Living the dream? Assessing the “entrepreneurship as emancipation” perspective in a developed region. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
    required
  • Wry, T., Lounsbury, M., & Jennings, P. D. (2014). Hybrid vigor: Securing venture capital by spanning categories in nanotechnology. Academy of Management Journal, 57(5), 1309
    required
  • Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(6), 1173
    required
  • Shook, C. L., Ketchen, D. J., Hult, G. T. M., & Kacmar, K. M. (2004). An assessment of the use of structural equation modeling in strategic management research. Strategic Management Journal, 25(4), 397-404
    required
  • Williams, L. J., Vandenberg, R. J., & Edwards, J. R. (2009). Structural equation modeling in management research: a guide for improved analysis. The Academy of Management Annals, 3(1), 543-604
    required
  • Han, Q., Jennings, J. E., Liu, R., & Jennings, P. D. (2019). Going home and helping out? Returnees as propagators of CSR in an emerging economy. Journal of International Business Studies, 50(6), 857-872
    required
  • Shaver, J. M. (2005). Testing for mediating variables in management research: Concerns, implications, and alternative strategies. Journal of Management, 31(3), 330-353
    required
  • Wiklund, J., & Shepherd, D. (2003). Knowledge‐based resources, entrepreneurial orientation, and the performance of small and medium‐sized businesses. Strategic Management Journal, 24(13), 1307-1314
    required
  • Hamilton, B. H., & Nickerson, J. A. (2003). Correcting for endogeneity in strategic management research. Strategic Organization, 1(1), 51-78
    required
  • Shaver, J. M. (1998). Accounting for endogeneity when assessing strategy performance: Does entry mode choice affect FDI survival?. Management Science, 44(4), 571-585
    required
  • Flammer, C. (2015). Does product market competition foster corporate social responsibility? Evidence from trade liberalization. Strategic Management Journal, 36(10), 1469-1485
    required
  • King, B. G. (2008). A political mediation model of corporate response to social movement activism. Administrative Science Quarterly, 53(3), 395-421
    required
  • Pollock, T. G., Lee, P. M., Jin, K., & Lashley, K. (2015). (Un) Tangled Exploring the Asymmetric Coevolution of New Venture Capital Firms’ Reputation and Status. Administrative Science Quarterly, 60(3), 482-517
    required
  • Allison, P. D. (1982). Discrete-time methods for the analysis of event histories. Sociological Methodology, 13(1), 61-98
    required
  • Bradley, S. W., Aldrich, H., Shepherd, D. A., & Wiklund, J. (2011). Resources, environmental change, and survival: Asymmetric paths of young independent and subsidiary organizations. Strategic Management Journal, 32(5), 486-509
    required
  • Greve, H. R. (2011). Fast and expensive: The diffusion of a disappointing innovation. Strategic Management Journal, 32(9), 949-968
    required
  • Palmer, D. A., Jennings, P. D., & Zhou, X. (1993). Late adoption of the multidivisional form by large US corporations: Institutional, political, and economic accounts. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38(1), 100-131
    required
  • Kirsch, D. 2000. The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press
    recommended
  • Baldassarri, D., & Abascal, M. (2017). Field experiments across the social sciences. Annual review of sociology, 43, 41-73
    required
  • Bitektine, A., Lucas, J., & Schilke, O. (2018). Institutions under a microscope: Experimental methods in institutional theory
    required
  • Levine, S. S., Schilke, O., Kacperczyk, O., & Zucker, L. G. (2023). Primer for Experimental Methods in Organization Theory. Organization Science, 34(6), 1997-2025
    required
  • Quillian, L., & Midtbøen, A. H. (2021). Comparative perspectives on racial discrimination in hiring: The rise of field experiments. Annual Review of Sociology, 47, 391-415
    required
  • Burt, R. S., Kilduff, M., & Tasselli, S. (2013). Social network analysis: Foundations and frontiers on advantage. Annual Review of Psychology, 64, 527-547
    required
  • Mehra, A., Kilduff, M., & Brass, D. J. (2001). The social networks of high and low self-monitors: Implications for workplace performance. Administrative science quarterly, 46(1), 121-146
    required
  • Hannigan, T., Wang, M. S., Steele, C., Seidel, M. D. L., Cervantes, E., & Jennings, P. D. (2020). A cultural network approach for amending Covid-19 policy
    required
  • Hannigan, T. R., Briggs, A. R., Valadao, R., Seidel, M. D. L., & Jennings, P. D. (2021). A new tool for policymakers: Mapping cultural possibilities in an emerging AI entrepreneurial ecosystem. Research Policy, 104315
    required
  • Padgett, J. F., & Ansell, C. K. (1993). Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434. American Journal of Sociology, 98(6), 1259-1319
    required
  • Uzzi, B. (1997). Social structure and competition in interfirm networks: The paradox of embeddedness. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35-67
    required
  • Fiss, P. C. 2007. A set-theoretic approach to organizational configurations. Academy of Management Review, 32(4): 1180–1198
    required
  • Fiss, P. C. 2011. Building Better Causal Theories: A Fuzzy Set Approach to Typologies in Organization Research. Academy of Management Journal, 54(2): 393–420
    required
  • Hsieh, Y. Y., & Vergne, J. P. (2023). The future of the web? The coordination and early‐stage growth of decentralized platforms. Strategic Management Journal, 44(3), 829-857
    required
  • Misangyi, V. F., & Acharya, A. G. 2014. Substitutes or Complements? A Configurational
    required
  • Aversa, P., Furnari, S., & Haefliger, S. 2015. Business model configurations and performance: A qualitative comparative analysis in Formula One racing, 2005-2013. Industrial and Corporate Change, 24: 655–676
    recommended
  • Furnari, S., Crilly, D., Misangyi, V. F., Greckhamer, T., Fiss, P. C., et al. 2020. Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing. Academy of Management Review
    recommended
  • Ragin, C. C., & Fiss, P. C. 2016. Intersectional Inequality. University Of Chicago Press
    recommended
  • Croidieu, G., & Kim, P. H. 2018. Labor of Love: Amateurs and Lay-expertise Legitimation in the Early U.S. Radio Field. Administrative Science Quarterly, 63(1): 1–42
    required
  • DiMaggio, P., Nag, M., & Blei, D. (2013). Exploiting affinities between topic modeling and the sociological perspective on culture: Application to newspaper coverage of US government arts funding. Poetics, 41(6), 570-606
    required
  • Grimmer, J., & Stewart, B. M. (2013). Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts. Political Analysis, 21(3), 1–31
    required
  • Hannigan, T. R., Haans, R. F., Vakili, K., Tchalian, H., Glaser, V. L., Wang, M. S., ... &
    required
  • Jennings, P. D. (2019). Topic modeling in management research: Rendering new theory from textual data. Academy of Management Annals, 13(2), 586-632
    required
  • Schmiedel, T., Müller, O., & Vom Brocke, J. (2019). Topic modeling as a strategy of inquiry in organizational research: A tutorial with an application example on organizational culture. Organizational Research Methods, 22(4), 941-968
    required
  • DiMaggio, P. (2015). Adapting computational text analysis to social science (and vice versa). Big Data & Society, 2(2): 1–5
    recommended
  • Kaplan, S., & Vakili, K. (2015). The double‐edged sword of recombination in breakthrough innovation. Strategic Management Journal, 36(10), 1435-1457
    recommended
  • Mohr, J. W., & Bogdanov, P. (2013). Introduction—Topic models: What they are and why they matter. Poetics, 41(6), 545-569
    recommended
  • Aceves, P., & Evans, J. A. (2024). Mobilizing conceptual spaces: How word embedding models can inform measurement and theory within organization science. Organization Science, 35(3), 788-814
    required
  • Cornelissen, J., Höllerer, M. A., Boxenbaum, E., Faraj, S., & Gehman, J. (2024). Large Language Models and the Future of Organization Theory. Organization Theory, 5(1),
    required
  • Ziems, C., Held, W., Shaikh, O., Chen, J., Zhang, Z., & Yang, D. (2024). Can large language models transform computational social science? Computational Linguistics, 50(1), 237-291
    required
Winter 2025

Readings

  • Cornelissen, J., Höllerer, M. A., & Seidl, D. (2021). What theory is and can be: Forms of theorizing in organizational scholarship. Organization Theory, 2(3), 26317877211020328
    unspecified
  • Edmondson, A. C., & McManus, S. E. (2007). Methodological fit in management field research. Academy of Management Review, 32(4), 1246-1264
    unspecified
  • Mantere, S., & Ketokivi, M. (2013). Reasoning in organization science. Academy of Management Review, 38(1), 70-89
    unspecified
  • Wellman, N., Tröster, C., Grimes, M., Roberson, Q., Rink, F., & Gruber, M. (2023). Publishing multimethod research in AMJ: A review and best-practice recommendations. Academy of Management Journal, 66(4), 1007-1015
    unspecified
  • Tavory, I., & Timmermans, S. 2014. Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research. University Of Chicago Press
    unspecified
  • Lounsbury, M. & Gehman, J. 2024. A Concise Introduction to Organization Theory: From Ontological Differences to Robust Identities. Edward Elgar
    unspecified
  • Bromiley, P., & Johnson, S. (2005). Mechanisms and empirical research. Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, 2, 15-29
    unspecified
  • Chang, W., Franke, G. R., & Lee, N. (2016). Comparing reflective and formative measures: New insights from relevant simulations. Journal of Business Research, 69(8), 3177-3185
    unspecified
  • Diamantopoulos, A., & Winklhofer, H. M. (2001). Index construction with formative indicators: an alternative to scale development. Journal of Marketing Research, 38(2), 269-277
    unspecified
  • Gangl, M. (2010). Causal inference in sociological research. Annual Review of Sociology, 36, 21
    unspecified
  • Mullainathan, S., & Bertrand, M. (2001). Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data. American Economic Review, 91(2), 67-72
    unspecified
  • Cliff, J. E., Jennings, P. D., & Greenwood, R. (2006). New to the game and questioning the rules: The experiences and beliefs of founders who start imitative versus innovative firms. Journal of Business Venturing, 21(5), 633-663
    unspecified
  • James, A. E., Jennings, J. E., & Jennings, P. D. (2017). Is it better to govern managers via agency or stewardship? Examining asymmetries by family versus nonfamily affiliation. Family Business Review, 30(3), 262-283
    unspecified
  • Jennings, J. E., Jennings, P. D., & Sharifian, M. (2016). Living the dream? Assessing the “entrepreneurship as emancipation” perspective in a developed region. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40(1), 81-110
    unspecified
  • Miller, K. D., & Tsang, E. W. (2011). Testing management theories: critical realist philosophy and research methods. Strategic Management Journal, 32(2), 139-158
    unspecified
  • Suddaby, R. (Ed.). (2010). Editor's comments: Construct clarity in theories of management and organization. Academy of Management Review, 35(3), 346-357
    unspecified
  • unspecified
  • Grant, A. M., Gino, F., & Hofmann, D. A. (2011). Reversing the extraverted leadership advantage: The role of employee proactivity. Academy of Management Journal, 54(3), 528-550
    unspecified
  • Baron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(6), 1173
    unspecified
  • Shaver, J. M. (2005). Testing for mediating variables in management research: Concerns, implications, and alternative strategies. Journal of Management, 31(3), 330-353
    unspecified
  • Williams, L. J., Vandenberg, R. J., & Edwards, J. R. (2009). Structural equation modeling in management research: a guide for improved analysis. The Academy of Management Annals, 3(1), 543-604
    unspecified
  • Han, Q., Jennings, J. E., Liu, R., & Jennings, P. D. (2019). Going home and helping out? Returnees as propagators of CSR in an emerging economy. Journal of International Business Studies, 50(6), 857-872
    unspecified
  • Wiklund, J., & Shepherd, D. (2003). Knowledge‐based resources, entrepreneurial orientation, and the performance of small and medium‐sized businesses. Strategic Management Journal, 24(13), 1307-1314
    unspecified
  • Hoetker, G. (2007). The use of logit and probit models in strategic management research: Critical issues. Strategic Management Journal, 28(4), 331-343. - *Greve, H. R., & Goldeng, E. (2004). Longitudinal analysis in strategic management. Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, 1, 135-163. - *Halaby, C. N. (2004). Panel models in sociological research: Theory into practice. Annual Review of Sociology, 30, 507-544
    unspecified
  • Chatterjee, A., & Hambrick, D. C. (2007). It's all about me: Narcissistic chief executive officers and their effects on company strategy and performance. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52(3), 351-386
    unspecified
  • Chin, M. K., Hambrick, D. C., & Treviño, L. K. (2013). Political Ideologies of CEOs The Influence of Executives’ Values on Corporate Social Responsibility. Administrative Science Quarterly, 58(2), 197-232
    unspecified
  • Jennings, J. E., Jennings, P. D., & Greenwood, R. (2009). Novelty and new firm performance: The case of employment systems in knowledge-intensive service organizations. Journal of
    unspecified
  • Kaplan, S. (2008). Cognition, capabilities, and incentives: assessing firm response to the fiber- optic revolution. Academy of Management Journal, 51(4), 672-695
    unspecified
  • Wry, T., Lounsbury, M., & Jennings, P. D. (2014). Hybrid vigor: Securing venture capital by spanning categories in nanotechnology. Academy of Management Journal, 57(5), 1309-1333
    unspecified
  • Hamilton, B. H., & Nickerson, J. A. (2003). Correcting for endogeneity in strategic management research. Strategic Organization, 1(1), 51-78
    unspecified
  • Semadeni, M., Withers, M. C., & Trevis Certo, S. (2014). The perils of endogeneity and instrumental variables in strategy research: Understanding through simulations. Strategic Management Journal, 35(7), 1070-1079
    unspecified
  • Shaver, J. M. (1998). Accounting for endogeneity when assessing strategy performance: Does entry mode choice affect FDI survival?. Management Science, 44(4), 571-585
    unspecified
  • Flammer, C. (2015). Does product market competition foster corporate social responsibility? Evidence from trade liberalization. Strategic Management Journal, 36(10), 1469-1485
    unspecified
  • Grimes, M. G., Gehman, J., & Cao, K. (2018). Positively deviant: Identity work through B Corporation certification. Journal of Business Venturing, 33(2), 130-148
    unspecified
  • King, B. G. (2008). A political mediation model of corporate response to social movement activism. Administrative Science Quarterly, 53(3), 395-421
    unspecified
  • Pollock, T. G., Lee, P. M., Jin, K., & Lashley, K. (2015). (Un) Tangled Exploring the Asymmetric Coevolution of New Venture Capital Firms’ Reputation and Status. Administrative Science Quarterly, 60(3), 482-517
    unspecified
  • Aceves, P., & Evans, J. A. (2024). Mobilizing conceptual spaces: How word embedding models can inform measurement and theory within organization science. Organization Science, 35(3), 788-814
    unspecified
  • Corley, K. G., & Gioia, D. A. (2004). Identity ambiguity and change in the wake of a corporate spin-off. Administrative Science Quarterly, 49(2), 173-208
    unspecified
  • Cornelissen, J., Höllerer, M. A., Boxenbaum, E., Faraj, S., & Gehman, J. (2024). Large Language Models and the Future of Organization Theory. Organization Theory, 5(1),
    unspecified
  • Hannigan, T. R., Haans, R. F., Vakili, K., Tchalian, H., Glaser, V. L., Wang, M. S., ... &
    unspecified
  • Jennings, P. D. (2019). Topic modeling in management research: Rendering new theory from textual data. Academy of Management Annals, 13(2), 586-632
    unspecified
  • Kitchin, R., & McArdle, G. (2016). What makes Big Data, Big Data? Exploring the ontological characteristics of 26 datasets. Big Data & Society, 3(1), 2053951716631130
    unspecified
  • DiMaggio, P., Nag, M., & Blei, D. (2013). Exploiting affinities between topic modeling and the sociological perspective on culture: Application to newspaper coverage of US government arts funding. Poetics, 41(6), 570-606
    unspecified
  • Grimmer, J., & Stewart, B. M. (2013). Text as Data: The Promise and Pitfalls of Automatic Content Analysis Methods for Political Texts. Political Analysis, 21(3), 1–31
    unspecified
  • Schmiedel, T., Müller, O., & Vom Brocke, J. (2019). Topic modeling as a strategy of inquiry in organizational research: A tutorial with an application example on organizational culture. Organizational Research Methods, 22(4), 941-968
    unspecified
  • Vayansky, I., & Kumar, S. A. (2020). A review of topic modeling methods. Information Systems, 94, 101582
    unspecified
  • Bohn, S., & Rogge, J. C. (2022). The framing of green innovations—a comparative topic modeling study on the public frames of the electric vehicle in Germany and UK. Journal of Cleaner Production, 364, 132499
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  • Croidieu, G., & Kim, P. H. 2018. Labor of Love: Amateurs and Lay-expertise Legitimation in the Early U.S. Radio Field. Administrative Science Quarterly, 63(1): 1–42
    unspecified
  • Kaplan, S., & Vakili, K. (2015). The double‐edged sword of recombination in breakthrough innovation. Strategic Management Journal, 36(10), 1435-1457
    unspecified
  • Fiss, P. C. 2007. A set-theoretic approach to organizational configurations. Academy of Management Review, 32(4): 1180–1198
    unspecified
  • Fiss, P. C. 2011. Building Better Causal Theories: A Fuzzy Set Approach to Typologies in Organization Research. Academy of Management Journal, 54(2): 393–420
    unspecified
  • Hsieh, Y. Y., & Vergne, J. P. (2023). The future of the web? The coordination and early‐stage growth of decentralized platforms. Strategic Management Journal, 44(3), 829-857
    unspecified
  • Misangyi, V. F., & Acharya, A. G. 2014. Substitutes or Complements? A Configurational
    unspecified
  • Aversa, P., Furnari, S., & Haefliger, S. 2015. Business model configurations and performance: A qualitative comparative analysis in Formula One racing, 2005-2013. Industrial and Corporate Change, 24: 655–676
    unspecified
  • Furnari, S., Crilly, D., Misangyi, V. F., Greckhamer, T., Fiss, P. C., et al. 2020. Capturing Causal Complexity: Heuristics for Configurational Theorizing. Academy of Management Review
    unspecified
  • Ragin, C. C., & Fiss, P. C. 2016. Intersectional Inequality. University Of Chicago Press
    unspecified
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