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
Citation
GREGOIRE, Denis A.; TER WAL, Anne L. J.; LITTLE, Laura M.; BERMISS, Sekou; KOTHA, Reddi; and GRUBER, Marc.
From the Editors: Mobilizing new sources of data: Opportunities and recommendations. (2024). Academy of Management Journal. 67, (2), 289-298.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7494
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https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2024.4002
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