2025-2026 AOM-CARMA Micro and Macro Methods Lectures this Friday Sept. 5
CARMA (Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods & Analysis) is a non-profit academic center at Texas Tech University now in our 26th year of providing research methods education. We are pleased to announce another year of collaboration with the Academy of Management to provide free AOM-CARMA Affiliate Program to active AOM members. This program gives current AOM Student and Academic Members complimentary access to a limited set of CARMA's research methods education resources as part of their AOM membership benefits. Our first set of events is this Friday, September 5. Details on these events, along with access instructions are provided below.
Webcast Lectures – Friday, September 5:
· Dr. Sandeep Pillai, Tulane University
Historical Methods and PEEBI Testimonial Structure for Abductive Studies in Strategy
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EDT | 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM BST
Abstract: Quantitative studies are increasingly relying on inference to the best explanation (IBE) or modern abduction. I discuss how historical methods-hermeneutics, contextualization, and source criticism-can improve IBE by helping scholars arrive at "best" explanations that are lovely, in the sense that they are useful, general, and provide meaning, and likely, in the sense that they are close to the truth. Further, I discuss how such scholarly work can be presented within the constraints of a typical management journal article. I propose an abductive testimonial structure, termed PEEBI, which consists of five sections in which the authors take prior knowledge and theories, establish the context and observations that are worthy of scholarly interest, identify candidate explanations that may explain the observed patterns, evaluate the candidate explanations, determine the best explanation and their reasoning for accepting it, and abstract the best explanation to a more generalizable theoretical contribution. This structure foregrounds transparency and the author's judgment, elevating the reader's role by providing them with the information to make their own informed judgments.
· Dr. Richard N. Landers, University of Minnesota
How to Engineer Technologies to Ensure the Validity of Research Using Them
Noon – 1:15 PM EDT | 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM BST
Abstract: As behavioral scientists studying organizations and their members increasing integrate technology into their research, they are also increasingly conducting interdisciplinary research without realizing it and with limited expertise in the technology domain they are borrowing from. This has created an epidemic of poorly designed, poorly developed, and poorly understood technologies in organizational research studies. The resulting shortcomings, rather than minor methodological concerns, often threaten the fundamental validity and generalizability of those studies. In this talk, we'll tackle this problem by exploring how and why the assumptions of behavioral organizational science and technology domains differ. Next, given this foundation, we'll discuss how organizational researchers can build better technologies through modern engineering practices, select better technologies for inclusion in their research, and better work with technology teams in support of their research goals.
For 2025-2026, AOM Members will no longer be able to access CARMA program benefits from their AOM Member area. Instead, they must have a CARMA User Account and must sign up for the 2025-2026 CARMA-AOM Affiliate Program. If you are an AOM member, follow the steps below.
New to CARMA – Create a New CARMA User Account
- If you've never registered with CARMA through an Institutional or Affiliate Membership:
- Create a CARMA User Account (Note: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and other webmail addresses are not accepted.)
- Check your email for a verification link.
- The message will come from CARMA@ttu.edu via carma=ttu.edu@notifications.med.und.edu.
- Verify your email, then log in to your CARMA User Area to finish setting up your account.
Current AOM Affiliate Members – Create a new CARMA User Account Password
- If you've previously registered through the AOM-CARMA direct connection, you already have a CARMA User Account but will need to create a new password:
1. Visit CARMA User Area Forgot Password, and enter the same email address you use for your AOM account.
2. Click on E-Mail Reset Password Instructions.
3. The reset instructions will come from CARMA@ttu.edu via carma=ttu.edu@notifications.med.und.edu.
Register for the 2025-2026 CARMA-AOM Affiliate Program:
To access the CARMA-AOM Affiliate Program benefits, now that you have your CARMA account and password sign up for the 2025-2026 CARMA-AOM Affiliate Program:
1. Once logged in to your CARMA User Area, click the Register/Purchase tab.
2. Choose 2025-2026 CARMA-AOM Affiliate Program.
3. Click Continue, then Proceed to Checkout. (Even though it's free, checkout is required to complete registration.)
Once you have signed up for the free 2025-2026AOM-CARMA Affiliate Program, no additional registration is required to attend CARMA's Live Online Webcast Lectures. Access to the lectures will be found in your CARMA User Area under the Access Live Events tab.
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Larry Williams
Professor
Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX
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