Management & Social Psychology

So this is what we know about management

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 [...]

Questionnaires & Experiments with Coupon-Paid Participants

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 [...]

The Long Academic Publishing Process Life-Cycle

One of the most important things prospect or current PhD students are not aware of perhaps till well in their 2nd or 3rd year of studies is what the academic paper publishing life-cycle looks like. Most of the students who enter a PhD program with a declared commitment to an academic life have no experience [...]

Writing Conference Presentation Abstracts

If your proposal/paper has been accepted to a conference, you will atleast be required to submit an abstract that will be included in the published proceedings. How to write the conference presentation abstract? Here’s some of what I learned in the process of writing those…

Structure can vary, but this is what I recommend :

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Resources on Conducting a Meta-Analysis

If you’re looking for some good resources on meta-analysis – what it is, how to run it, and how to evaluate it – then following is a list of resources I found helpful on the topic :

David Wilson’s page on “Meta analysis stuff” – terrific Powerpoint presentation slides as well as SPSS/STATA/SAS/Excel macros and [...]

Finding Academic Conferences–Email alerts

If you looking for academic conferences in a specific region or research area, one of the best ways to keep track of what’s going on is by setting up an alert filter on one of the conferencing websites.

The one I use is Conference Alerts (Facebook group here):

Receive free e-mailed updates of conferences [...]

Readings on Affect (Emotions and Mood)

I put together a reading list about an evolving trend in micro organizational behavior research – Affect. Browsing through Google Scholar, reading through abstracts and looking through some syllabuses for psychology and OB courses I found on the web, following is the plan I came up with for a seminar.

Week 1 –General [...]

Free Concordance / Keyword Frequency Text Analysis Tools

Doing qualitative research that involves text analysis for either keyword frequency or concordance context related review? I complied a list of a few free basic software packages that might help you with that. You should be able to do a simple keyword frequency lookup, keyword search, context concordance viewing of occurrences, with basic import and [...]

Marketing Scholars Social Network Analysis Free Dataset

I recently came across another interesting freely available social networks dataset detailing the connections between publishing marketing scholars in marketing journals. This dataset was headed by one of my early years MBA professor – Jacob Goldenberg – and finally published as a paper titled “The Evolving Social Network of Marketing Scholars”. The dataset is freely [...]