Publication Type

Transcript

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

4-2024

Abstract

In June 2008, the U.S.-based website Glassdoor.com began posting anonymous company reviews and salary data from current and former employees of various organizations. Doing so not only brought to the world information that had hitherto been restricted to private circles, it spontaneously prompted some organizations to alter their workplace practices (Dineen & Allen, 2016; Dube & Zhu, 2021). At the same time, Glassdoor’s very activities gave rise to a completely new source of data for exploring a wealth of management and organizational phenomena (e.g., Bermiss & McDonald, 2018; Rhee, 2024). As this example illustrates, new data sources can not only transform managerial and organizational practices, they also invite the development of innovative theoretical explanations and can unlock opportunities to advance academic understanding of a broad range of management and organizational phenomena.

Keywords

Datasets, new sources of data, management research

Discipline

Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods | Strategic Management Policy

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

Publication

Academy of Management Journal

Volume

67

Issue

2

First Page

289

Last Page

298

ISSN

0001-4273

Identifier

10.5465/amj.2024.4002

Publisher

Academy of Management

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2024.4002

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