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This is a friendly reminder to register in advance for the AOM PDW on Advances in Linguistic Approaches to Examining Cultural Knowledge: Topic Model Analysis, Inductive Mixture Analysis, and Qualitative Comparison Analysis.
This will be a good opportunity to learn how to incorporate both language and culture into your research at both micro and macro levels of analyses. The methods are novel but not difficult. No prerequisite knowledge is required. The workshop is free, but we encourage pre-registration in order for us to plan effectively.
Given the power of words to establish, invoke, and assess cultural knowledge, this Professional Development Workshop introduces three 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 the three methods and insight into how to use the methods for your own research. 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.
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
Please register in advance at http://aom.org/annualmeeting/registration/pdw/
Josh Keller
Nanyang Technological University