Release date: April 29, 2022
Speakers: Paul Hünermund (Copenhagen Business School) and Richard Haans (Rotterdam School of Management)
Description: In this first session of the 2022 SMS Research Methods Interest Group Doctoral and Junior Faculty Consortium, two presentations were shown. The first was from Paul Hünermund of Copenhagen Business School, who presented on “Using Directed Acyclical Graphs (DAGs) to clarify Control Variables and Identification.” DAGs are a powerful tool to clarify threats to identification as well as when controls are good or when they are “bad”, and should be in any empirical researcher’s toolkit. The second was from Richard Haans of the Rotterdam School of Management, who presented on “Topic Modeling: Rendering New Theory from Textual Data.” Topic modeling has been increasingly used to analyze textual data. These methods can enable scholars to develop better understandings of strategic decisions.