Session 02: Variance Research Designs

Topics

Show us the evidence that X causes Y.

• 1. Variance research question & unit of analysis

  2. Causal, contingent, and interacting relationships

  3. Randomized, quasi, and non-experimental studies.

  4. Sampling and sample size.

  5. Causal or path analytic models.

  6. Factors threatening internal, external, statistical and construct validities.

Video Clip

• Variance Research Models

Reading

• Engaged Scholarship, Chapter 6

• Supplementary reading:

  • Shadish, Cooke & Campbell, Ch. 1–3 in Experimental and Quasi-Exp. Designs, 2002.

  • Bettis, et al., Creating repeatable cumulative knowledge in strategic management, SMJ, 2016.

  • Bamberger, P & Miller, C., Exploring emergent and poorly understood phenomena AMD, 2017.

Notes

• Class slides on variance research design

Exercises

• • Complete this worksheet to design a variance study of your research topic and bring it to class for discussion

  • Example of Variance Model Design by Yeonjoo Lee (2021)

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