orgshackathon

AOM 2023 People and Organizations Hackathon PDW

Saturday, Aug 5 2023 8:00AM - 12:00PM ET at Boston Park Plaza in White Hill Room

Pre-registration is recommended for facilitating interactions during Part 2, but all AOM attendees are welcome to attend the entire PDW without pre-registration.

This hackathon aims to foster the development of macro-level research on topics associated with organization design, careers, and work performance. Participants will come together for a focused effort to collaboratively nurture a set of specific research “seeds”: a research question looking for a viable empirical strategy; a bleeding edge method looking for possible applications in management research; a dataset that may be of interest for management scholars. Contributors that are experts in their respective fields kickstart the event by providing the seeds. All participants will have the opportunity to brainstorm solutions to common empirical problems and develop new research designs to tackle challenging research questions. The event involves a high level of collaboration and creativity, as participants work quickly and intensively to generate new insights or solutions. Our goal is to offer an interactive and developmental session, fostering research collaborations between scholars at different stages of their careers and from different disciplinary and demographic backgrounds.

Organizers

Enrico Forti, Manhattan College and UCL
Piyush Gulati, INSEAD
Ulya Tsolmon, Washington University in St. Louis

Participants

Bukky Akinsanmi, London Business School
Julien Clement, Stanford University
Ying-Ying Hsieh, Imperial College Business School
Monika Kackovic, University of Amsterdam
Harsh Ketkar, Bocconi University
James Riley, Harvard Business School

Facilitators

Daphne Baldassari, University of Toronto
Oliver Baumann, University of Southern Denmark
Kim Claes, Cornell University
Victoria Sevcenko, INSEAD
Maciej Workiewicz, ESSEC Business School

Lead Sponsor

OMT

Co-Sponsors: STR, OB, RM

Format and Structure

Activity Description	Time
PDW Introduction and Overview on the Hackathon Format Enrico Forti, Ulya Tsolmon, Piyush Gulati	10 mins
Part 1 — Hackathon: “Seeding” Macro and Micro Perspectives (Plenary)	110 mins
Each contributor offers a max 8' presentation introducing a specific research “seed” — i.e., a research question looking for a viable empirical strategy; a bleeding edge method looking for possible applications in management research; a dataset that may be of interest for management scholars. Please click on the link next to each contributor's topic to access the seed material. Bukky Akinsanmi — Human Capital Capabilities: what has architecture got to do with it? (seed) Julien Clement — Esports as a natural laboratory for organizational research (seed) Ying-Ying Hsieh — Governance in decentralized autonomous orgs (DAOs) (seed) Monika Kackovic — Computational approaches to culture and creativity (seed) Harsh Ketkar — Organizational design research using computational models (seed) James Riley — Architectural drivers of status signals (seed) Includes one break (10 mins).
Part 2 — Hackathon: Growing the Research Seeds (Parallel Breakout Roundtable Sessions)	110 mins
Groups of attendees are invited to collaboratively develop research designs. The discussion at each roundtable is semi-structured, centred around the research “seeds” introduced in the plenary and attendees’ research expertise and interests. Scholars at different stages of their careers and from different disciplinary and demographic backgrounds will benefit from this format, since they will have the opportunity to interact in the more intimate and friendly environment of a roundtable. All tables will be provided with a structured template to aid the idea development process and facilitators will annotate the key ideas discussed in each table to facilitate further discussion and research collaborations. Includes one break (10 mins). Seed Table 1. Human Capital Capabilities: what has architecture got to do with it? Seed Contributor: Bukky Akinsanmi Facilitator: Victoria Sevcenko Seed Table 2. Esports as a natural laboratory for organizational research Seed Contributor: Julien Clement Facilitator: Enrico Forti Seed Table 3. Governance in decentralized autonomous orgs (DAOs) Seed Contributor: Ying-Ying Hsieh Facilitators: Kim Claes, Piyush Gulati Seed Table 4. Computational approaches to culture and creativity Seed Contributor: Monika Kackovic Facilitator: Daphne Baldassari Seed Table 5. Organizational design research using computational models Seed Contributor: Harsh Ketkar Facilitators: Maciej Workiewicz, Oliver Baumann Seed Table 6. Architectural drivers of status signals Seed Contributor: James Riley Facilitator: Ulya Tsolmon
Closing Remarks	10 mins

Pre-registration Survey

Please use this link to pre-register yourself to attend Part 2 of the PDW by July 28, 2023. Pre-registration is recommended for facilitating interactions during Part 2, but all AOM attendees are welcome to attend the entire PDW without pre-registration.