Research, strategy.
Welcome. Thanks for taking the time to check out this little resource page I created. My goal here is to provide some helpful information for young scholars in the fields of organization theory, strategy, and management about the tools and techniques to help them write their research papers. I do not want to tell you what to research or what kind of research is better or worse but to provide some guidance on how to structure your research system to be effective at achieving your own research goals either as a Ph.D. student or as a new faculty member.
I write this resource page based on my own experience. Over the last 15 years, I’ve struggled to publish my work. During this learning process, I received excellent advice from senior colleagues, peers, and anonymous reviewers about improving my work. Some of the advice was specific to the paper I was writing; other advice became the models and systems I used to conduct all my research moving forward. I also learned through trial and error about how to significantly reduce the cost and headache of doing specific research tasks. This includes mundane things like setting up a directory for a new project or conducting a literature review for a topic that I want to learn about for a new paper I am writing.
I began this project by writing down a model of my research system and then broke down the more significant components of the system into smaller research tasks that fall within these larger chunks. The major components of my research system constitute the primary topics that make up the chapters of this guide. Within each chapter, I break down this process into micro chunks: minute tasks of the research process, such as setting up a project directory, commenting code, comparing job offers, etc. If you find this guide helpful, you may skip from chapter to chapter and task to task. As a result, I have created hyperlinks that connect related chapters and tasks, even if they may not be proximate in the numerical sequence of the guide.
[note: This page is UNDER CONSTRUCTION and will evolve over the next few months as I build out the guide. Also, the views expressed are my own and not of any institution with which I am affiliated.]
Below is a list of all the topics I will cover in this guide. As I finish writing a section, I will link the topic to the page.
| 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 |
Sharique Hasan 