Capturing Managerial Cognition in Chilean Wineries: Hardening a New Method to Elicit and Code Mental Models of Dynamic Systems

Schaffernicht, Martin; Grösser, Stefan (2015). Capturing Managerial Cognition in Chilean Wineries: Hardening a New Method to Elicit and Code Mental Models of Dynamic Systems In: 33d international Conference of the System Dynamics Society. System Dynamics Society

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This paper contributes to research on mental models of dynamic systems (MMDS). MMDS research works with qualitative data that has to be elicited and analyzed to represent the MMDS as qualitative models which can be analyzed and compared by analysis tools like the “distance-ratio” method. We have revised the SD literature on collecting and analyzing qualitative data and devised an interview-based method which minimizes influence on interviewees and applies a coding process which yields a qualitative model according to the current definition of MMDS. We use exemplary data from a case study which is currently in process to show how the method is applied. We extract some observations concerning the particularity of coding for MMDS and the double competence which researchers should have. We also raise two questions for future research, dealing with the proper aggregation level of MMDS and with the unknown amount of researcher influence that a MMDS can resist without bias

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	School of Engineering and Computer Science > Institute for Data Applications and Security (IDAS) School of Engineering and Computer Science Business School School of Engineering and Computer Science > Institute for ICT-based Management (ICTM)
Name:	Schaffernicht, Martin and Grösser, Stefan0000-0003-3412-2711
Publisher:	System Dynamics Society
Submitter:	Stefan Grösser
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2019 10:25
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2022 13:23
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ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.7757
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/7757