How to craft good theory and logic that gets research papers published and cited
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Time: 10.00am - 3.00pm
Venue: FL6231 Frank Lampl building, Kingston Hill campus, Kingston Hill, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LB
Price:
free
Speaker(s): Dr Jared Hansen
This doctoral seminar workshop is designed to help participates improve their crafting of new original research papers for submission to journals spanning several fields of business study. Theory construction is an important topic for both conceptual and empirical research in any research area. While significant attention is given by doctoral programs in many leading universities to memorising concepts from seminal articles, very little time is usually spent on the following question: what is it about certain theories that lead to them being used and cited more by other researchers and practitioners? Related to this question, this seminar workshop will cover:
- Best practices in theory construction across business disciplines (ie cross-discipline approach).
- Review of several successful theories from information systems, organisational science, finance, economics, strategy, marketing, and other business related areas.
- Picking apart several journal award winning theory papers to create templates for in-class exercises in which students will have opportunities to work on improving their own research papers (ie any papers they created in prior classes or for conferences or dissertation/thesis drafts in progress).
- Real-time feedback on anonymous exercise submissions within the workshop so that participants benefit from practicing shared skillsets.
Day 1 workshop topics – 2 June 2015
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 10.00am |
What makes a scientific contribution & what is good theory vs what is not |
| 10.30am | Exercise in finding the two big research questions/topics that matter most to you personally |
| 10.45am | Morning short break for coffee/light refreshments/facilities |
| 11.00am | Strategies/frameworks that make theory more interesting and novel |
| 12.00pm | Lunch break |
| 1.30pm | Picking apart recent award winning conceptual articles - what makes them tick |
| 2.00pm | Crafting more persuasive logic and better hypothesis formulation |
| 2.15pm | Afternoon short break for coffee/light refreshments |
| 2.30pm | Guided exercise in practicing hypothesis revision/improvement |
| 3.00pm | Adjourn for the day |
Day 2 workshop topics – 3 June 2015
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 10.00am |
Surviving the journal review gauntlet - best practices in replying to reviewers' comments |
| 10.30am | Guided exercise in practicing better journal reviews and replies to reviewers |
| 10.45am | Morning short break for coffee/light refreshments/facilities |
| 11.00am | How to write scientific definitions and their antecedents and consequences |
| 11:30am | Guided exercise in practicing writing better definitions |
| 12.00pm | Lunch break |
| 1.30pm | Increasing your research's reach and citations: how to connect you to big ideas to seminal theories in marketing and management research |
| 2.00pm | Afternoon break and coffee/light refreshments/facilities |
| 2.15pm | Increasing your research's reach and citations: how to connect you to big ideas to seminal theories in finance and economics research |
| 3.00pm | Adjourn for the day |
Day 3 workshop topics – 4 June 2015
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 10.00am |
Lessons learned in how to craft a cohesive paper and developing a research stream |
| 10.15am | Guided exercise in using templates from day 1 |
| 10.45am | Morning short break for coffee/light refreshments/facilities |
| 11.00am | Increasing your research's reach and citations: how to connect you to big ideas to seminal theories in other fields/topics (eg TCE, Agency, Theory, CSR cross-discipline research) |
| 12.00pm | Lunch break |
| 1.30pm | Increasing your research's reach and citations: how to connect you to big ideas to seminal theories in information systems and technology research |
| 2.00pm | Afternoon break and coffee/light refreshments/facilities |
| 2.15pm |
Lessons learned in how to craft a cohesive paper & developing a research stream |
| 3.00pm |
Adjourn for the day |
Booking is essential to attend this event.
For further information about this event:
Contact: George Saridakis
Email: g.saridakis@kingston.ac.uk
Directions
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