2019 Workshop on Experimental Research in Social Science and Business - BizLab - UNSW Business School Experimental Research Laboratory

2019 Workshop on Research Methods in Social Sciences and Business
Norms & Practices in Experimental Research: Opportunities and Challenges

The UNSW Business School's experimental research laboratory (BizLab) is hosting a half-day Workshop on Research Methods in Social Sciences and Business on Friday, 8th November 2019. The theme for this year's workshop is

"Norms & Practices in Experimental Research: Opportunities and Challenges"

This year's workshop brings together three high-profile researchers from different disciplines with considerable experience at the editorial level. The presentations and panel discussion will offer us a cross-disciplinary perspective and provide a forum to discuss about the challenges and potential opportunities in experimental research in the future. We welcome academics from across the business disciplines and social sciences who are interested in experimental research and interdisciplinary exchange. As in the past years, the workshop hopes to provide an opportunity to faculty and PhD students from across Australia to engage in discussions about these issues.

Details

Date: Friday, 8 November 2019
Time: 12pm - 5.10pm
Location: UNSW Kensington Campus, Sydney

Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia (G19)

Refreshments including lunch will be provided (registration is mandatory)
Invited speakers:
Prof. J. Jeffrey Inman (Marketing, University of Pittsburgh)
Prof. Richard Hatfield (Accounting, University of Alabama)
Prof. Nicholas Feltovich (Economics, Monash University)

Registration

Registration is mandatory: Deadline - 26 October 2019, 17:00 AEDT

To register, click on the link below to be taken to the registration page.

Program Schedule

12:00 - 12:45 Registration and lunch
12:45 - 13:00 Opening remarks and Introduction to the workshop
13:00 - 13:55 Presentation 1 (40 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for Q&A)

J. Jeffrey Inman

Current Practice and Shifting Trends in Experimental Design in the Consumer Behavior Area

13:55 - 14:05 Mini break
14:05 - 15:00 Presentation 2

Richard Hatfield

Behavioral Accounting Research: Understanding Our Past to Shape the Future

15:00 - 15:20 Afternoon Tea Break
15:20 - 16:15 Presentation 3

Nicholas Feltovich

Title: TBA

16:15 - 17:00 Panel Discussion
17:00 - 17:10 Concluding Remarks
17:30 - Evening Reception

Speaker Bios

J. Jeffrey Inman
- Prof. Inman joined the faculty of the Katz School in 2000 and was named the Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing in 2003. He received his Ph.D. in Marketing from University of Texas at Austin. He consistently features in the Top 20 in 'author productivity in the premier marketing journals' list. Prof. Inman is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Research, one of the top four Marketing journals. He has also been on the editorial board of several other premier marketing journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science and Journal of Consumer Psychology. Prof. Inman has also served as the president of both the Society for Consumer Psychology as well as the Association for Consumer Research. His interests include consumer decision making, shopper marketing, and eating behaviors.
Richard Hatfield
- Prof. Hatfield is the EY Professor of Accounting at the University of Alabama and is the director of the Garner Research Center and a CPA in the state of Texas. He received a B.B.A. and M.S. Accounting from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Professor Hatfield's primary research interests have been in the area of experimental auditing and tax and he is ranked in the Top 10 most productive experimental accounting professors in the BYU ranking, based on publications in the top accounting journals. Recently, Prof. Hatfield received the American Accounting Association Wildman's Medal for research having the largest impact in practice over the previous five years. His research has been sighted by regulatory organizations like the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and incorporated into international accounting firms' methodology and training.
Nicholas Feltovich
- Prof. Feltovich is an economist specialising in the analysis of decision-making behaviour in strategic settings, mainly through the use of controlled experiments with human subjects. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from University of Pittsburgh, under the supervision of Alvin Roth (Nobel Laureate in 2012). He spent several years at the University of Houston and the University of Aberdeen before joining Monash University's economics department in 2011. He has published 24 peer-reviewed articles, including 13 in ABDC A* journals and another 6 in A journals, in areas such as bargaining, game theory, behavioural economics, and bounded rationality. He currently holds two ARC-DP grants (both as lead CI). Prof. Feltovich is an associate chair of Monash's Human Research Ethics Committee, a member of the executive board of the Economic Science Association (the international organisation of experimental economists), associate editor of European Economic Review and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, and is on the editorial board of Experimental Economics and Journal of the Economic Science Association. Since 2018, Prof. Feltovich is the Asia-Pacific Vice-President of the Economic Science Association.