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AOM PDW: Using Historical Methods to Improve Inference in Strategy Research

  • 1.  AOM PDW: Using Historical Methods to Improve Inference in Strategy Research

    Posted 08-03-2018 10:01
    PDW Invite: Using Historical Methods to Improve Inference in Strategy Research 

    Organizer: Sandeep Pillai, U. of Maryland 
    Participant: Brian Silverman, U. of Toronto 
    Participant: Daniel Wadhwani, U. of the Pacific 
    Participant: Nicholas Argyres, Washington U. in St. Louis 
    Participant: Zur Shapira, New York U. 
    Participant: Lamar Pierce, Washington U. in St. Louis 

    Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 11 2018 1:30PM - 3:30PM at Swissôtel Chicago in Montreux 1

    The purpose of this PDW is to enhance participant's understanding of how to use historical methods to guide inference. The PDW aims to instill in participants the importance of viewing firms and decision makers as temporally situated actors whose action's significance can be interpreted only after understanding the context and antecedent and subsequent events. The PDW advances the argument that historical methods should be employed to provide qualitative, contextual evidence supporting interpretation of clearly identified, strategically relevant events.

    Regards
    Sandeep
    PhD Candidate
    University of Maryland
    sandeep.pillai@rhsmith.umd.edu