Apologies for Cross-Postings.
We would like to let you know about an upcoming AOM PDW.
Advances in Linguistic Approaches to Examining Cultural Knowledge: Topic Model Analysis, Inductive Mixture Analysis, and Qualitative Comparison Analysis
Date: Saturday, August 02, 2014 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Eastern Time)
Location: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth C
Sponsors: (MOC, RM, IM, OMT)
Organizers: Josh Keller & Jeffrey Loewenstein
Additional Presenters: Keyvan Vakili, Thomas Greckhamer
Given the power of words to establish, invoke, and assess cultural knowledge, this Professional Development Workshop introduces methods for measuring language-based cultural knowledge: Topic Model Analysis, Inductive Mixture Analysis, and Qualitative Comparison Analysis. These methods can help researchers examine the effect of cultural knowledge on managerial and organizational outcomes. Cultural knowledge and language are linked because almost all knowledge relevant for organizational activity is generated and coordinated by language use within organizational, professional, institutional, or national cultures. Consequently, methods for assessing cultural knowledge that focus on language provide foundational tools for organizational research.
This PDW will provide overviews of three current methods, Topic Model Analysis, Inductive Mixture Analysis, and Qualitative Comparison Analysis. Topic Model Analysis is a text mining methodology for identifying sets of interrelated words as a means of inducing domains of cultural knowledge. Inductive Mixture Analysis is a recent extension of Cultural Consensus Theory for identifying the content and distribution of cultural knowledge based on the shared meanings of words. Qualitative Comparison Analysis is a set-theoretic approach for identifying configurations of properties-generated through an examination of cultural knowledge about cases-that jointly cause outcomes. Together, these three approaches represent sophisticated efforts to identify and assess the effects of complex cultural knowledge, and thereby advance managerial and organizational research. The PDW will introduce each of the three methodologies, discuss how to use and combine these methodologies for examining cultural knowledge, and hold discussion groups to develop research using these methodologies.
The workshop is free. Please register in advance at http://aom.org/annualmeeting/registration/pdw/
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at jwkeller@ntu.edu.sg .
Josh Keller
Nanyang Technological University