BPS Managing Your Dissertation Workshop Introduction

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BPS Managing Your Dissertation Workshop
Introduction
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Whats a strategy dissertation all about?

• Asking and answering an interesting question that
  advances the field of strategic management
• Getting it all into a thesis that gets you a
  degree and a job

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Exemplary research starts with interesting
questions

• questions that not only have not been asked
  before, but whose asking will open new research
  problems, might resolve long-standing
  controversies, could provide an integration of
  different approaches, and might even turn
  conventional wisdom and assumptions upside down
  challenging old beliefs. Campbell, Daft and
  Hulin (1982 21), What to Study Generating and
  Developing Research Questions. CA Sage
  Publications.

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Research mindset joining a scholarly conversation

• Which conversations should I participate in?
• Who are the important conversants?
• What are these scholars thinking about now?
• What are the most interesting things I can add to
  the conversation?
• Anne Huff (1999). Writing for Scholarly
  Publication. CA Sage Publications.

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Breakout group 1 (Sarah Kaplan) David Baker,
Kent State University Fernando Chaddad, Kenan
Flagler (UNC) Naga Lakshmi Damaraju, The Ohio
State University Julie Feickert, University of
Utah Adam Fremeth, University of Minnesota Nilesh
Khare, Fisher College, Ohio State Jade Lo,
University of Southern California Matthew
Mitchell, University of South Carolina Mark
Washburn, University of California,
Irvine Michelle Westermann-Behaylo, George
Washington Breakout group 2 (Gary
Dushnitsky) Chuck Eesley, MIT Sloan Feruzan
Irani, Auburn University Mazhar Islam, University
of Minnesota Elizabeth Lim, Purdue
University Toyah Miller, Texas AM
University Marieke Schilpzand, Georgia Institute
of Technology Bart Sharp, Purdue
University Manisha Singal, Virginia Tech Bart
Vanneste, London Business School Meyrav Yitzack
Halevi, bar ilan university Breakout group 3 (Jon
OBrien) Alexander Alscher, University of St.
Gallen Mathias Arrfelt, Michigan State
University Nikhil Celly, Richard Ivey School,
Western Ontario Robert E. Dratwa, Capella
Unversity Anne Fuller, Georgia Institute of
Technology Jijun Gao, Richard Ivey School,
Western Ontario Srinivas Gunta, Indian Institute
of Management Bangalore Drew Hess, Georgia
Institute of Technology Jaeyoung Kang, SUNY at
Albany Patrick McGuigan, Pace University Carol-Ann
Tetrault Sirsly, Concordia University
Breakout group 4 (Saikat Chaudhuri) Carlos
atoche-Kong, EGADE-ITESM Lin Jiang, College of
Management, Georgia Institute of Technology Anju
Mehta, Auburn University, Auburn Jason Pattit,
Syracuse University James Peacock, University of
Phoenix B. Elisabeth Rossen, Florida
International University Sujit Sur, Concordia
University Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez , IESE
Business School Arnie Vaske, St. Ambrose
University Qian Xiao, University of Alabama Zhe
Zhang, university of central florida Jennifer
Ziegelmayer, The University of Mississippi Breakou
t group 5 (Jasjit Singh) Craig Crossland,
Pennsylvania State University JP Eggers, Wharton,
UPenn Jay Lee, University of Pittsburgh Jon Moon,
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Caterin
a Moschieri, IESE Business School Ming Piao,
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern
University Simon Wakeman, Haas Business School,
University of California Frank Fan Xia, UCLA
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Agenda for today