 Olin Levi Warner, Research holding the torch of knowledge (1896).
WELCOME! This is the home page for the CoB Research Group, supervised by Agnieszka Kwapisz . If you have any suggestions for topics to discuss, please, send e-mail to akwapisz at montana dot edu . The format is open: you may submit your working paper, a manuscript you are reviewing, a paper you always wanted to read, ... .
Our topic for the Fall 09 semester is: Research on Education. We will meet in Reid 415 from 2:10-2:50 pm on the following dates (Wed): October 7, October 21, November 4, November 18 (Reid 455), and December 2. Please, stop by and join our discussion on better teaching and research possibilities.
Fall 2009 Papers Discussed:
(10/21) What can we learn from MFT-B scores? Black & Duhon 2003
(10/21) Exams? Papers? Presentations? Projects? How to improve students' assessment? - we will base our discussion on the article by
Walstad from the Journal of Economic Education (2001)
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(10/07) Have you ever wonder which aspects of the student evaluations have the
greatest impact on the overall instructor rating? Is there an evidence of
an urban legend that the easiest way to increase this rating is to reduce
standards and inflate grades? ... We are begining this semester with the article by Barth from
the Journal of Education for Business (Sept/Oct 2008) "Deciphering Student
Evaluations of Teaching: A Factor Analysis Approach"
Spring 2009 Papers Discussed:
We concluded the semester by obtaining data to study the efficiency of NFL betting market.
(04/27) We continued discussion about the efficiency of the NFL betting market.
(04/13) We talked about the efficiency of the NFL betting market after reading Boulier, Stekler, and Amundson (2006).
(03/30) We learned how to win betting on the NFL betting market by discussing
Sapra’s Journal of Sports Economics Oct 2008 article
“Overreaction to Unexpected NFL Team
Performance 1988-2006 Evidence of Betting Market Intraseason Efficiency
and Interseason”
(03/09) We discussed "A SURVEY OF BEHAVIORAL FINANCE" provided by Greg. This book chapter refers also to a seminal article by Kahneman and Tversky 1974 in Science.
(02/23 and 02/09) We had a great discussion on the use and on the theory of probit and logit models after reading "Predicting the outcomes of National Football League
games", (International Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 19 Issue 2, April-June 2003 257-270).
Fall 2008 Papers Discussed:
Did you know that only 5% of authors in the field of management account for 53% of ALL citations and 26% of ALL publications?! And 25% of authors account for 86% of citations and 55% of articles! This is accordnig to Podsakoff et al. "Scholarly Influence in the Field of Management: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Determinants of
University and Author Impact in the Management
Literature in the Past Quarter Century", (Journal of Management, Vol. 34 No. 4, August 2008 641-720).
"Peer review is the worst form of scientific evaluation, except for all others that heve been tried" :) Do you agree?
"Peer Review and the Social Construction of Knowledge in the Management Discipline", Bedeian, Academy of Management Learning and Education, 2004, Vol. 3, No. 2, 198–216.
Do you want to make your next paper more interesting? Read seminal work by Phil Davis
"That’s Interesting!" Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1971, 309-344 and
"What Makes Management Research Interesting, and Why Does It Matter?" Bartunek et al. Academy of Management Journal 2006, Vol. 49, No. 1, 9–15. We learned that the most interesting management paper EVER was: J. E. Dutton & J. Dukerich. 1991. “Keeping an Eye on the Mirror: Image and Identity in Organizational
Adaptation.” Academy of Management Journal, 34: 517–554.
Is conflict always bad for the performane of groups? Read
"THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF CONFLICT: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF INTRAGROUP CONFLICT AND GROUP PERFORMANCE." by Jehn and Mannix, Academy of Management Journal 2001, Vol. 44. No. 2, 238-251.
Is change a self-reinforcing process? or Does prior change reduce the likelihood of subsequent change? Read "MOMENTUM OR DECELERATION? THEORETICAL AND
METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE ANALYSIS
OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE" by BECK and BRUDERL, Academy of Management Journal 2008, Vol. 51, No. 3, 413–435.
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