Credibility and Rigour in Management Research

About

This summer school is tailored for advanced master’s, PhDs, and early-career scholars across all management disciplines (e.g., strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership). Learn to design rigorous, transparent, and replicable studies through hands-on workshops in open science, robust methods, and critical appraisal. Work with leading experts, pressure-test your projects, and leave with concrete improvements such as preregistration plans, and reproducible code. You’ll also reflect on research values and how to embed credibility from idea to publication. Expect an energizing cohort, practical tools you can use immediately, and a lasting community committed to raising the impact and relevance of management research

Course leader

Geert J. Schenk, Piet M. Bouman

Target group

The course is aimed at Master's / PhD students and will provide participants with the insight to deduct that all neurological conditions and neuroscientific principles can be traced back to anatomy. Hence, decent understanding of neuroanatomy forms a pivotal starting point for any scientific or clinical career in the (pre)clinical and fundamental neurosciences.

The course will also be insightful for practitioners working in e.g. neuro-rehabilitation as it provides them with examples of the injuries they are dealing with in their practices. Furthermore, it will be interesting for physical therapists, paramedics, and teachers in e.g. biology at high school or universities of applied sciences

Course aim

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

Understand and navigate the key credibility challenges facing management research and their implications for theory, practice, and publication.
Apply principles of open science, including preregistration, data and code transparency, and replication, to strengthen the trustworthiness of their own work.
Design research for robustness and causal inference, incorporating appropriate methodological choices and sensitivity analyses.
Critically evaluate research with respect to transparency, rigour, and reproducibility.
Plan and execute replication studies as a tool for theory testing and knowledge accumulation in management research

Fee info

Student or PhD candidate: €1000, student or PhD candidate at any Dutch university or partner university of VU Amsterdam: €900 Student, PhD candidate or employee of VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, or an Aurora Network Partner: €750, Non-student: €1200