[ 01 — WHY THIS SUMMIT ]
Open science is a set of practices that make research more transparent, verifiable, and reusable: pre-registering hypotheses and analysis plans before data collection, publishing registered reports that are peer-reviewed on design rather than results, and sharing data, materials, and code so others can check and build on your work. Psychology's replication crisis showed why these practices matter — management research is now catching up.
Replication is how a field finds out which findings hold. Independent teams repeat a published study — with the same design, or a deliberate variation — to test whether the original effect appears again. Despite its importance, replication remains rare in management. This summit exists to change that: you will leave with a concrete replication project, a pre-registration draft on the Open Science Framework, and editors' advice on where to publish it.