“How can it happen? Why would someone with obvious intelligence, ambition and talent risk everything by falsifying data? Social psychology offers us a way to answer such questions […] To understand fraud in science, the useful lesson is the significance of that first tiny step. Every minor transgression — dropping an inconvenient data point, or failing to give credit where it is due — creates a threat to self-image. The perpetrators are forced to ask themselves: am I really that sort of person? Then, to avoid the discomfort of this threat, they rationalize and justify their way out, until their behaviour feels comfortable and right. This makes the next transgression seem not only easier, but even morally correct.” https://lnkd.in/dPUYhrXM
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The folks at Bath are pretty active….
Want to read about School of Management research and expertise making headlines? The July edition of Management in the Media has you covered! 🗞 This time: 'phubbing', the dangers of 'always-on' work culture and research into new chauvinism.
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If you’re interested in pragmatism or generally looking for an interesting sesssion at AOM, this is certainly one:
Dear colleagues: We invite you to join an exciting, interactive, and star-studded symposium on the pragmatist foundations of research on entrepreneurial strategy at this year's Academy of Management annual meeting in Chicago. Our expert panel - Todd Zenger, Violina Rindova, Saku Mantere, Joseph Mahoney, Dimo Dimov, and Arnaldo Camuffo - will illuminate this burgeoning area of research by discussing first principles and promising research directions. Tuesday | Aug 13, 2024 | 11:30AM – 1:00PM Hyatt Regency Chicago | Roosevelt 3B 👉 https://lnkd.in/eHAUZaNP We hope to see you in the session. Anastasia Sergeeva and David Reetz
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"Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. " (great paper, well worth the read). https://lnkd.in/d76Zyzyq
ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology
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Kakutani argues that much of the alternative facts Trumpian world we see today has its roots in the post modernist push of the academic left of the 70s that showed disregard to the pursuit of objective truth. To be sure, the right wing may have “bastardized” it, but the broader point here is the extreme of both sides are not that different from each other. Provocative and interesting, also a short read.
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani | PenguinRandomHouse.com
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Is Boeing too big to fail? And if yes, what does it mean and what can be done to promote safety? In this op-ed, I suggest that indeed, Boeing is too big to fail. I further suggest that the giant has fallen into a confidence trap and offer a solution that centers on introducing executive “skin in the game.”
Boeing’s fraud case shows that some businesses are still too big to fail
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I look forward to presenting my research on "The Confidence Trap" and how to avoid it at the 15th CRA Risk & Safety Forum. You can read some of that research at the following links: https://lnkd.in/eZeU2QXv (Can Boeing Fix Itself?) https://lnkd.in/eXmXU5MB (The Confidence Trap in Operations Management Practices: Anatomy of Man-Made Disasters) https://shorturl.at/itfNG (Boeing’s fraud case shows that some businesses are still too big to fail)
🚀CRA are excited to announce another speaker for CRA Risk & Safety Forum 2024 – Dr Akhil Bhardwaj from University of Bath School of Management ✨Dr Bhardwaj is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath School of Management, previously tenured at Tilburg University (Netherlands). He earned his Ph.D. in Business Studies from I.E. Business School (Spain) and holds an M.Sc. in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Kansas State University. 👉Dr Bhardwaj serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Operations Management. Before academia, he was the service coordinator for CAT, Inc.'s locomotive fleet in India, managing assets worth over £100 million. His research focuses on reducing the likelihood of disasters in high-risk complex systems and has been shared with policy officials and published in top academic journals. 👉At CRA Risk & Safety Forum 2024, Dr Bhardwaj will be presenting on the topic titled “Avoiding the confidence trap towards disaster: The reflective practitioner” where the audience will learn how organisations fall into the "confidence trap," a dangerous cycle where past successes from risky decisions lead to more risk-taking and potential disaster. The speaker will introduce a five-step approach for practitioners to critically evaluate their successes, avoid the confidence trap, and ultimately enhance organizational safety and performance. 🤩 We are delighted to have Dr Bhardwaj as #Speaker at our CRA Risk & Safety Forum 2024 and look forward to his engaging and informative session. Event Details: 🔍 Date: 25-26 September 2024 🌍 Location: The Grand Hotel, Birmingham (UK) 👩💻 Theme: Innovation in Risk & Safety Management 🌐 Official Website: https://lnkd.in/eMRdHP_e 🏃♀️ Hurry, secure your ticket today ! 👉 To know more about previous forums: https://lnkd.in/eMRdHP_e #CRAForum2024 #RiskandSafety #Forum #Networking #IndustryLeaders #speakerannouncement
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Can Boeing fix itself? Yes, but as Luk Van Wassenhove, Henk Akkermans and I argue, it requires looking beyond solutions centering on leadership and culture towards governance. And it entails introducing some C-suite skin in the game. "Safety should not rest solely on the leadership. It should be underpinned by governance structures that promote good practices on one hand, and prohibit shady quality practices and other forms of opportunism on the other. Good leadership can improve safety outcomes, but to depend on it is akin to favouring benevolent dictatorships over healthy democracies, which have institutional safeguards to prevent abuse of power and harm due to incompetence. The solution lies in establishing governance with appropriately designed incentives, implementing proper administrative controls, allocating decision rights based on expertise and, ideally, selecting employees who place organisational well-being above myopic self-interest."
Can Boeing Fix Itself?
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“[Researchers]increasingly resort to pretentious and long-winded prose to at least create the illusion of “theory development.” The result is writing that can only be understood by those already on the inside of the debates it references. As opposed to “imposter syndrome,” in which qualified people doubt their suitability for a given job, I suggest that many of us have become “genuine imposters” in that we pretend to be doing more important work, and more competently, than we really are.” Similar statements can likely be made for the veneer of methodological “sophistication,” which if examined closely by those outside epistemic communities that use it reveal something entirely else. To the extent that these communities can capture journals, research appears legitimate. We ultimately circle back again to the relevance of management theory to practitioners…….
The triumph of nonsense in management studies
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