Last semester a professor in our department asked me whether I have some recommended readings for his PhD class on what constitutes a theoretical contribution in the field of management. Looking over the classes I took and papers I put aside over the years I was able to draft the following list.   There are [...]

At the beginning of the current semester I was asked to welcome our new PhD arrivals with a basic orientation to our department’s program. Since those PhDs have been briefed by our faculty and received lots of information about the program, so I thought it would be better to give them a few pointers on [...]

There are time when you’re running a Quatrics survey and would like to calculate the results during survey run on the fly and present this back to the user. Even if it’s not as straight forward there is an advanced way to do this with Qualtrics.   The most basic way to do this it [...]

It’s very easy to setup Qualtrics as a signup form, and I’ve found this to be a far more efficient method than many of the other participant signup systems out there. I often use Qualtrics when asking participants to sign up for experiment sessions and it works terrific. The secret ingredient for signup forms with [...]

To collect survey data and run survey based manipulations I use Qualtrics. Even if all you need is run a survey, I would still generally recommend to administer that to your participants in a computer lab using a computerized survey. In the time that I’ve been using Qualitrics I’ve learned a few neat tips and [...]

It’s a relatively new way to look at data collection and participant engagement. Rather than pursuing potential participants to fill out your surveys, a few online project are using social media to attract participants to fill out the surveys for their own benefits, possibly creating some of the most comprehensive datasets available for those scales. [...]

In the 90s the personal values research domain led by Rokeach (1968, 1970) has gained a significant momentum with Schwartz’s work identifying ten cross-cultural value categories falling into two dimensions on a circumplex : self-enhancement vs. self-transcendence and conservation vs. openness to change. Most of the research in this domain followed value measurement using the [...]

Implicit Association Test (IAT) is a psychological measure aimed at tapping into a person’s implicit mental attitudes towards a certain concept or issue. Greenwald, McGhee and Schwartz (1998) have led the way to the method that has now become widely used in many domains in social psychology and cognition. The general basic IAT procedure is [...]

If you’re a PhD student, most chances are that at some point you’re going to go to a conference and present a conference poster. Most times this will present work in progress, something that you’re currently thinking of or have collected initial data for, but even if you have already written the paper putting it [...]

Talking to some of the management faculty at my university about qualifying exams I received a few tips and feedback on previous qualifying exam answers  that might be worth documenting and sharing. While those are somewhat subjective, and perhaps subject, context or culture bound, they do make general sense to me. Many of those are [...]

There comes a time in every management scholar’s life when one attempts to make a generalized summary of the field and contemplates what we – as management scholars – might be able to offer others – like managers.   Now that I’m forced into that stage the thought of what we might have have to [...]

Lots of missing data and failed manipulations are just some of the issues you may encounter while running questionnaires or experiments with coupon based or paid participants, especially students, especially undergrad students. They lack motivation & they want to finish the pain as soon as possible, so getting them to actually read the questions and [...]