JSCM Asia Pacific Virtual Methods Series: Can I really use an experiment for that?
JSCMs Asia Pacific team are running a virtual seminar series, the first session took place on the 7th of July and was entitled: “Can I really use an experiment for that?”
The broad goal of these sessions is twofold: a) to encourage participants to think about new methodological approaches and research questions, and, b) to provide them with a forum to discuss their experiences or concerns related to these methodological topics with subject matter experts.
”The use of experiments to collect data is increasingly popular in operations and supply chain management but our field is still only skimming the surface of experimental methods relative to other fields. This discussion will focus on the unique challenges we still face in operations management when using experimental methods - such as how to simulate real managerial decision making, and what we should consider doing to improve the reliability of our experimental design. We drew from other fields such as marketing and discussed some of the problems that field has already considered (and we should know of). We spent time discussing different uses for experiments, how and why to conduct multi-stage or multi-method experiments, and briefly covered in-depth approaches to decision making such as discrete choice.”
Our second session in the series will take place on the 7th of September
Title: Conducting research involving vulnerable persons: how context, sensitivities, identity, and informant voice should inform your methodology
Panelists: Marie Segrave (Monash U), Hari Bapuji (Melbourne U), Ajnesh Prasad (Royal Roads)
“Research involving persons that are vulnerable – for example exploited, migrant, or undocumented workers; and/or groups marginalized because of class, gender, race – is not often found in the operations and supply chain management domain. Such workers and/or groups, however, frequently intersect with supply chains and can contribute significantly to labor, and business ownership in supply chains. As such, vulnerability should be properly considered in our research designs, and appropriately factored into research problems that involve workers in OM/SCM. Vulnerability should inform how we design our research, which informants we speak to, how we speak with them, and how we understand our data. For example, workers' class, race, gender or socio-economic positionality to both ourselves and their employer, affects what they say (and what we hear).In this session, three scholars will discuss their experiences with research involving workers that are vulnerable for different reasons, and what this means for the research process. We will also discuss some of the complexities around vulnerability and how this may affect publishing in management journals.”
A link to register will follow
For queries please contact: dayna.simpson@monash.edu
The slides from the first session with Stephanie Eckerd (U Tennessee Knoxville), John Aloysius (U Arkansas) and Harmen Oppewal (Monash Business School) presenting are below.