From Ideas to Papers

Der Chao ChenAssistant Professor of Strategy

Department of Business Administration National Central University, Taiwan

Email: derchao.chen@gmail.com

September 29, 2010

科技管理專題研討

Outline

• Doing in Your Research

• Writing Your Papers

• Professional Organizations related with Your Fields

• Career Development

• Some Interesting Books

Appendix

Doing Your Research

Doing Your Research

• Identify the research questions you really interest or at least like to dedicate for a long run.

• How to identify?

W: where, who/to whom, what, when, why, which, etc.

H: how to…

Doing Your Research

OLD NEW Questions/Phenomena

New

ResearchMethods

OLD

How will you pose

your research?

Doing Your Research

OLD NEW Questions

New

Theories

OLD

How will you pose

your research?

Doing Your Research►What ‘s new?new variables/constructs, new contextual variation

►What’s really interest you?

►Thinking beyond the boundaries across disciplines and classical debates

i.e. Cross-/multi-disciplinary studies

► So what? Find out theoretical and practical implication.

Writing Your Papers

Writing Your Paper

• Outline of a Academic Paper *Cover page, include authorship, abstract / keywords,

contact information, acknowledgement,

Introduction

Literature Review

Research Method

Results

Discussions and/or, Conclusions

References

* It is only a generic outline for reference

Writing Your Paper

• INTRODUCTION contains

Research questions, and some background information,

The value of your work,

Summaries your finding (optional),

The organization of your paper.

Writing Your Paper

• LITERATURE REVIEW includesPrevious and related work,You may also present your Propositions and Hypothesis in this section.

• RESEARCH METHOD coversYour research sample/setting - Who? why? how to

access?

Methods you applied - Why? how to do? validity and credibility of your chosen method.

Writing Your Paper • RESULTS explainWhat do you find? Just plain description and point

out any significances of your findings

• DISCUSSIONS have to Compare your analysis and/ or empirical results

and with previous works,

Describe whether your analysis support or oppose your arguments (hypotheses and propositions) and any extra interesting findings

Writing Your Paper

• CONCULSIONS summarize

Your major findings and contributions,

Point out your research limitations,

Indicate future research directions.

• REFERENCES need to Follow the guide for the authors from individual journals

(your target journal), or

Any other appointed by supervisor, funding vendors, etc.

Writing Your Paper

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENT uses to

Appreciate who ever help your during the research, such as funding organization, supervisors, anonymous reviewers

Point out if it revised from any earlier presentations or works

• How does the authorship matter?The order of authorship represents

contributions/responsibility of each listed author.

Writing Your Paper

Writing Submission Review Revise & Resubmit

Reject

Accept

►Production process of a refereed journal article

Writing Your Paper

• What is your target publication?

Which journal (or conference) your want to submit your works/ share you ideas with target readers.

• Match requirement of the outlet you chose

Journal: Read editorial policy and statement first.

Conference: Match the conference theme.

Writing Your Paper

• Some hints

Watch out the Call for Special issue in journals.

Organize the Special Issue for the journals you like to submit.

Organize the panel or play as the discussant in the conferences.

Writing Your Paper

• Comply the requirement from the “instructions for authors” or style guide for authors in your target journal.

• Pick the suitable editor or reviewer, if you’re required to do so.

• Be patience, the average turnover time is 6 months or more.

Writing Your Paper

• Review and Resubmit

The initial review result of your work may be informed within 3-6 months or more, depends on the journal you submitted.

“Revise and resubmit” is always better than having the letter of rejection

Check and prioritize comments from editors and reviewers accordingly.

Writing Your Paper

• Revise your work according to your research.

• Prepare other sheets to answer questions and comments from the reviewers’ report.

• Be Patience and Good Luck!

Professional Organizations related with Your Fields

Professional Organizations You like to Know

• The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) http://www.informs.org/

Publications: Management Science, Organization Science, Marketing Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, etc.

• Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) http://www.poms.org/

Publication: Production and Operations Management.

• Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) http://www.iienet.org/

Publication: IIE Transactions, The Engineering Economist, etc.

Professional Organizations You like to Know

• IAMOT (http://www.iamot.org/)

Publication: Technovation

• PDMA (http://www.pdma.org/)

Publication: Journal of Product Innovation Management

Professional Organizations You like to Know

• Academy of Management http://www.aomonline.org/

Publications: Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review Academy of Management Executives, Academy of Management Education & Learning.

• Academy of International Business http://aib.msu.edu/

Publication: Journal of International Business Studies

Professional Organizations You like to know• Decision Science Institute http://www.decisionsciences.org/

Publication: Decision Science

• American Marketing Associationhttp://www.marketingpower.com

Publication: Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of International Marketing.

• Japan Society of Business Administration (JSBA) http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jsba/index.html and The Euro-Asia Management Studies Association http://www.eamsa.org/

Publication: Asian Business & Management.

Professional Organizations You like to Know

• Strategic Management Societyhttp://www.smsweb.org/

Publication: Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

• The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) http://www.eiasm.org/index1.html

• IEEEhttp://www.ieee.org

Professional Organizations You like to Know

• Asia Academy of Management http://www.baf.cuhk.edu.hk/asia-aom/

Publications: Asia Pacific Journal of Management

• International Association of Chinese Management Researchhttp://www.iacmr.org/

Publication: Management and Organization Review

• Taiwanese Academy of Management http://www.taom.org.tw/

Publication: 組織與管理 (Organization and Management)

Professional Organizations You like to Know

•The American Finance Association (http://www.afajof.org/)

Publication: Journal of Finance

•The European Finance Association (http://www.efa-online.org/r/default.asp?iId=ILGLJ)

Publication: Review of Finance

Career Development

Career Development

• What can you do?

education, industry, and public sectors

• What kind of life style do you prefer?

Balance between life/health and work

• A life long journey or short term trip?

Career Development

• Be an academic labor force, you should

Continuous learning and observing new trends in your subject fields.

Use your vacation well, including the sabbatical leave.

e.g. short term visiting, faculty development program, etc.

• Balance your work and life

Career Development

• External/Institutional reasons/ Market pull

Publish or perish, Get the degree?

• Personal reason / Personal pursue

Personal interests,

Curiosity in doing research and/or teaching.

Appendix

Some Interesting Books

Huff, A. S. (2008). Designing research for publication . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Huff, A. S. (1998). Writing for scholarly publication . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc,

Heppner, P. P., & Heppner, M. J. (2004). Writing and publishing your thesis, dissertation, and research: A guide for students in the helping professions. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Brooks/Cole.

Some Interesting Books

Boice, R. (2000). Advice for New Faculty Members . Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

(美 )罗伯特 ·博伊斯 |译者 :徐弢 //李思凡 , (2007), 給大學新教員的建議 ,北京 : 北京大學出版社。

Some Interesting Books

Smith, K. G., & Hitt, M. A. (Eds.) (2007). Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development . New York: Oxford University Press.

Datar, S., Garvin, D. A., & Cullen, P. G. (2010). Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads . Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press.

Some Interesting Books

Darley, J. M., Zanna, M. P., & Roediger, H. L. (Eds.) (2003). The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide . Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (APA), 2 ed.

Business School Ranking• Financial Times

http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/rankings

• Bloomberg BusinessWeekhttp://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/

• The Economisthttp://www.economist.com/whichmba

• US News & World Reporthttp://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools

Reading list

• Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G, & Williams, J. M. 2003. The craft of research (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• Cummings, L. L. and Frost, P. J. (Eds.). 1995. Publishing in the organizational Science (2nd ed.), CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

• Day, A. 1988. How to get research published in journals. England: Gower Publishing Ltd.

• Feldman, D. C. (2004). The devil is in the details: Converting good research into publishable articles. Journal of Management , 30 (1), 1-6.

• Lundberg, C. C. & Young, C. A. (Eds.). 2005. Foundations of Inquiry: Choices and trade-offs in the organizational science. CA: Stanford University Press.

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