1277: Enhancing Trust and Credibility in OB Research: Focusing on Research Integrity (21702)

The 2024 OB Plenary focuses on the critical importance of research integrity. A panel of OB researchers will offer best practices and methodologies for upholding research integrity in organizational behavior research. The session will address emerging issues and dilemmas, such as data management, authorship ethics, and the responsible use of technology in research. This plenary aims to empower OB researchers with knowledge and tools to foster ethical research practices in their academic pursuits. By fostering a collective commitment to integrity, the session seeks to contribute to the advancement of robust and trustworthy knowledge in the field of Organizational Behavior.

Five OB scholars will make brief presentations on different aspects of Research Integrity:

Jerry Davis (University of Michigan) will address how the Web re-shaped the context of publishing in ways that encourage bad behavior by publishers, journals, and scholar (the "algorithmic management of science"), and how GAI implemented within this context is likely to make things even worse.

Max Bazerman (Harvard University) will share his thoughts about how we might reform social science to enhance research credibility, with a particular focus on the role of coauthors to more actively engage with their data.

Larry Williams (Texas Tech University, CARMA) will discuss recent efforts in the research methods community related to questionable research practices, open science, and replication that collectively should enhance research integrity.

Anne Tsui (Arizona State University) will describe the virtual organization Responsible Research for Business and Management (RRBM) and its efforts to promote research that is both rigorous and useful, across disciplines and around the world. In particular, she will address the word "responsible" in as it relates to research integrity. For what are we (social scientists in b schools) responsible for? To whom are we responsible?

Carrie Leana (University of Pittsburgh) will discuss the ethics of conducting research in context. Trust between the researcher and those who are the subject of research is a key ingredient to successful field research, as is humility in understanding the context, particularly when the context is one fraught with conflicting perspectives (i.e., most field research sites).