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 |
Sharique Hasan 