OPERATIONS, TECHNOLOGY, AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT


A Replication Study of Operations Management Experiments in Management


ANDREW DAVIS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR


Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management


Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Cornell University


Science Management Science, 69, 9, September 2023 LINK TO PAPER LINK TO VIDEO


Co-authors • Andrew Davis


Associate Professor, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University


• Blair Flicker, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina • Kyle Hyndman, Jindal School of Management, U. of Texas at Dallas • Elena Katok, Jindal School of Management, U. of Texas at Dallas • Samantha Keppler, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan • Stephen Leider, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan • Xiaoyang Long, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin • Jordan D. Tong, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin


Summary


Over the last two decades, researchers in operations management have in- creasingly leveraged laboratory experiments to identify key behavioral insights and inform behavioral theories of operations management, impacting do- mains including inventory, supply chain management, queuing, forecasting, and sourcing. Until now, the replicability of most behavioral insights from these laboratory experiments has been untested, but Davis et al. remedy this with the first large-scale replication study in operations management.


With input from the wider operations management community, they identify ten prominent experimental operations management papers published in Management Science, which span a variety of domains, to be the focus of their replication effort. For each paper, they conduct a high-powered replication study of the main results across multiple locations using original materials (when available and suitable). In addition, their study tests replicability in multiple modalities (in-person and online) due to laboratory closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tis replication study contributes new knowledge about the robustness of several key behavioral theories in operations manage- ment and contributes more broadly to efforts in the operations management field to improve research transparency and reliability.


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