21939: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For: Enhancing Research Credibility & Transparency

Saturday, July 26, 2025

11:00 - 13:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: MR5

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/6vpPAj

Organizer(s)

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Roman Briker

Maastricht U., Netherlands
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Fabiola Heike Gerpott

WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
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Jost Sieweke

Vrije U. Amsterdam, Netherlands

Presenter(s)

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Nicolas Bastardoz

KU Leuven, Belgium
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Christopher Castille

Nicholls State University, United States
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Johannes Stark

Kühne-Logistics U., Germany

Management scholars have started to suggest a diverse set of actions to tackle an ongoing crisis of integrity, robustness, and ultimately the impact of scientific findings. These include, but are not limited to, pre-registration, registered reports, causal identification, better measurement, or data sharing. Yet, many of these approaches are still used scarcely. In addition, despite these measures serving the common goal of increasing the credibility of management research, so far very little exchange between advocates for different solutions has taken place. Accordingly, this PDW aims to accomplish two goals: First, it provides PDW participants with a hands-on introduction to developments and best practices in management research that have the goal of improving research credibility. Second, the PDW contributes to developing a “credibility community” in which researchers from different fields and with different backgrounds come together to shape a future of management research characterized by high trustworthiness, robustness, and transparency. Ultimately, the PDW’s topic contributes to more rigorous theory testing and a greater policy impact of management research.