Time and place: 26.9.-30.9.2022, Helsinki (Aalto BIZ)
Learning goal and objectives:
This course provides students with the required methodological skills needed to conduct experimental behavioural research for business and managerial science (mainly relevant for marketing, organizational and consumer behaviour). It deals with the basic concepts and techniques that underpin scientific research in the management sciences. This unit combines both questions about how to do proper research to answer a research question (such as the appropriate data collection methods) and how to analyse these data (statistical analysis analysis).
The course will cover the following two core aspects:
1. How to do (behavioral) empirical research (main emphasis will be on experimental methods)
- Identify research ideas and transform them into testable hypotheses
- What are good and not so good experiments and how to test causality
- How to identify good from not so good research questions
- Understand the difference between business and basic science research
- Understand the difference between publishing in good vs. in top academic journals
2. Building theories in business research and social sciences
- Understand the difference between theories and ‘mere effects’
- What are the problems with current approaches of social science theory building
- New approaches and directions of business and social science theory building
Instruction and examination:
5 days (6 hours per day, in total 30 hours) of intensive teaching, including lectures, practical exercises with survey and statistical software, and targeted consultation and problem-solving sessions
Credits: 6 ECTS
Grading: 1-5
Prerequisites: Students must have an understanding of basic quantitative research methods, and statistical analysis (usually covered in a intro to statistics class).
Admittance: PhD students in all fields of economics and business studies, (e.g. in marketing, management, accounting, etc.) who are handling research problems involving quantitative survey data. However, in student selection the priority will be given to doctoral students who are majoring in marketing, international business or management.
The maximum number of students admitted to the course is 25.
Fill in the form below and send it to the course coordinator (elizaveta.sakhnovskaia@aalto.fi)
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APPLICATION DEADLINE AUGUST 15, 2022
Instructors:
Dr. Robert Kreuzbauer
Associate Professor of Strategy
University of Stavanger, Norway
Course coordinator and contact information: Elizaveta Sakhnovskaia (Aalto University, Department of Marketing)