Modeling Workshops

upcoming workshops

2024 Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago

What: Session # 357 Linking Computational Models and Experiments in Behavioral Strategy Research

When: Saturday, Aug 10, 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Where: Sheraton Grand Chicago in Ontario

Who:

      Panelists: Daniel Levinthal, Marlo Raveendran, Oliver Baumann, & Scott Ganz

      Organizers: Dong Nghi Pham, Mads Kock Pedersen

      Facilitator: Ekin Ilseven

About:

Behavioral strategy has critical influences in the management literature. To investigate the behavioral aspects of strategic decision-making, two approaches are gaining increasing attention: computational models and experiments. Computational models enable developing theories about the behavior of complex systems of heterogeneous interacting agents. Experiments test these theories empirically and sometimes reveal unexpected findings that inspire new theoretical insights. Therefore, both are powerful complementary tools for studying how distributed actions aggregate into strategic outcomes. 

In this workshop, we offer participants an opportunity to interact with prominent scholars who work on bridging computational models and experiment methods to advance behavioral strategy research, as well as hands-on training with modeling during an interactive session. The panel will discuss the role of models and experiments in behavioral strategy, address how to implement and bridge computational models and experiments, and outline the most exciting and challenging future applications. The interactive session will practice a model of mutual learning in organizations and discuss the links to experimental designs.

In the interactive session, we will discuss and practice modeling with a simulation model and how it can be related to experiments. Bring your laptops for this part. 

The workshop is open to participants with or without prior experience in programming and modeling.

Past workshops

2023 Academy of Management Meeting in Boston

What: Session # 491 Using Computational Models in Behavioral Strategy Research

When: Saturday, Aug 5, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Where: Marriott, Vermont

Who:

      Panelists: Jerker Denrell, Dan Levinthal, Hart Posen, Marlo Raveendran, Michael Ryall

      Organizers: Chengwei Liu, Dong Nghi Pham, Maciej Workiewicz

About:

Computational models are gaining increasing attention in the management literature. They allow modeling and analyzing the behavior of complex systems of interacting agents and experimenting with different interaction structures, such as markets, networks, and organizations. As such, they are an excellent tool for studying the aggregation of distributed action, a central topic of interest in behavioral strategy. In its third installment, this workshop will give the participants an opportunity to interact with prominent scholars in the field and to work and practice modeling in an interactive session. In the first part of the workshop, the panel will discuss the role of formal models in behavioral strategy, address the process of designing and implementing a computational model, and outline the most interesting and challenging future applications of computational models.

In the interactive session, we will discuss and practice modeling mutual learning in organizations. Bring your laptops for this part. We will explore how ChatGPT can help us to be better modelers.

The workshop is open to participants with or without prior experience in programming and modeling.

For archive materials, contact dongnghi.pham@essec.edu.

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The TOM Society also organized workshops at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2017-19) and the Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting (2017) .