Research, strategy.

TL;DR: A resource page with tools and techniques to help young scholars write successful research papers by structuring the research process effectively.

Welcome to my resource page for young scholars in organization theory, strategy, and management! My goal is to provide helpful tools and techniques for writing successful research papers by structuring the research process effectively to achieve your goals as a Ph.D. student or new faculty member.

This resource page is based on excellent advice from senior colleagues, peers, and anonymous reviewers that helped me improve my writing. I learned how to reduce the cost and effort required for specific research tasks through trial and error, such as setting up a project directory or conducting a literature review for a new paper.

I broke down my research system into smaller research tasks that correspond to the chapters of this guide. Within each chapter, you’ll find micro-tasks like commenting code or comparing job offers. You can navigate from chapter to chapter and task to task as needed through the included links that connect related chapters and tasks, even if they are not in numerical order.

My hope is that this guide helps you structure your research process more effectively and achieve your goals with ease.

[note: This page is UNDER CONSTRUCTION and the views expressed are solely mine and not affiliated with any institution.]

This guide will cover a comprehensive list of topics, each of which will be linked to its corresponding page as the section is completed.

PREFACE
1 Readme first
2 Zipfs law applied to research
CHAPTER 1: GETTING INTO AND OUT OF A PHD PROGRAM
3 Applying to PhD Programs in Strategy and Management
4 Finishing your Ph.D. (written, March 4, 2010)
CHAPTER 2: THE RESEARCH SYSTEM
5 Create your research system
6 Setting up your project directory
CHAPTER 3: WRITING
7 Writing research in Overleaf
8 The structure of an academic paper
9 Making points
10 Sentence-by-sentence; create an outline
11 Editing your research
12 How a paper should look
13 Dictation
CHAPTER 4: DATA ANALYSIS
14 Research computing
15 Data analysis for strategy research
16 The Linear Regression
17 Causal inference
18 Writing research code (R)
19 Writing research code (STATA)
20 Publication quality tables
21 Publication quality figures
22 VRIN Data
23 Public datasets
24 Administrative Data / Trace Data
25 Survey Data
26 Experimental Data
27 Qualitative Data and Simulation Models
CHAPTER 5: RESEARCH IDEAS
28 What is a research idea?
29 Is my idea any good?
30 The NULL model and hypothesis.
31 G.A.S.; A paper can’t do everything.
32 Theory: I don’t think it means what you think it means.
33 Taste.
CHAPTER 6: LITERATURE REVIEWS
34 Summarizing a paper
35 Bibliographies in LaTeX; the canon.
36 Data-driven literature reviews
CHAPTER 7: HABITS
37 Excellence is the little things
38 Habits
39 1% better on 30 dimensions checklist
40 Delegating
41 Setting goals and managing time
CHAPTER 8: PUBLISHING
42 Research tracker
43 The publishing process
44 Choosing a journal
45 Submitting
46 Cover letters
47 Rejected papers
48 Revise and resubmit
49 Reviewing papers
CHAPTER 9: PRESENTING
50 Research presentations
51 Seminar Q&A
52 Short presentations
CHAPTER 10: YOUR CAREER
53 Job Market Paper
54 Curriculum Vitae
55 Research Pipeline
56 Research statement
57 Teaching statement
58 Personal research website
59 How academic hiring works
60 Getting a job
61 Comparing offers
62 The academic career
63 Getting tenure
64 Citations
65 Rockstars vs. musicians
CHAPTER 11: PERSONAL FINANCE
66 Choosing where to live: time vs. money
67 Personal finance for PhDs and Junior Faculty
CHAPTER 12: CREATING A COMMUNITY
68 Coauthoring
69 Sharing working papers
70 Conferences
71 Conference organizing
72 Academic social media
CHAPTER 13: TOPICS AND IDEAS IN STRATEGY/OT
73 Strategy / OT research dictionary
74 PhD Strategic Management (syllabus)
75 PhD Organizational Theory (syllabus)
76 PhD Field Experiments in Strategy (syllabus)
77 PhD Social Network Analysis (syllabus)
78 Ph.D. Entrepreneurship (syllabus)
CHAPTER 14: MBA STUDENTS
79 Teaching strategy to professional students
80 MBA course in Strategic Management
81 MBA course in Managing Social Networks