One of the most important things prospect or current PhD students are not aware of perhaps till well in their 2nd or 3rd year of studies is what the academic paper publishing life-cycle looks like. Most of the students who enter a PhD program with a declared commitment to an academic life have no experience [...]

If your proposal/paper has been accepted to a conference, you will atleast be required to submit an abstract that will be included in the published proceedings. How to write the conference presentation abstract? Here’s some of what I learned in the process of writing those… Structure can vary, but this is what I recommend : [...]

If you’re looking for some good resources on meta-analysis – what it is, how to run it, and how to evaluate it – then following is a list of resources I found helpful on the topic : David Wilson’s page on “Meta analysis stuff” – terrific Powerpoint presentation slides as well as SPSS/STATA/SAS/Excel macros and [...]

If you looking for academic conferences in a specific region or research area, one of the best ways to keep track of what’s going on is by setting up an alert filter on one of the conferencing websites. The one I use is Conference Alerts (Facebook group here): Receive free e-mailed updates of conferences matching [...]

I put together a reading list about an evolving trend in micro organizational behavior research – Affect. Browsing through Google Scholar, reading through abstracts and looking through some syllabuses for psychology and OB courses I found on the web, following is the plan I came up with for a seminar.    Week 1 –General reviews [...]

Doing qualitative research that involves text analysis for either keyword frequency or concordance context related review? I complied a list of a few free basic software packages that might help you with that. You should be able to do a simple keyword frequency lookup, keyword search, context concordance viewing of occurrences, with basic import and [...]

I recently came across another interesting freely available social networks dataset detailing the connections between publishing marketing scholars in marketing journals. This dataset was headed by one of my early years MBA professor – Jacob Goldenberg – and finally published as a paper titled “The Evolving Social Network of Marketing Scholars”. The dataset is freely [...]

In one of the recent Organizational Theory sessions about Social Networks some of the participants were discussing the potential in online social networking website datasets. The instructor pointed out that some of the social networking sites have began sharing their datasets with some researchers, but that access is still limited. However, there are social networks [...]

Resource Based View is one of the prominent theories of the firm. It is one of the often used lenses in strategic management research. However, to many who are new to strategy research, RBV (as it is better known) equates to Barney (1991). Yes, Barney (1991) summarized this idea better, but the theory has a longer history than that. Here [...]

The following post is a review/critique of : Luscher, S.L. & Lewis, M.W. 2008. Organizational Change and Managerial Sensemaking: Working through Paradox. Academy of Management Journal, 51: 221-240 Luscher & Lewis go into a somewhat different and unique investigation of the organizational change process by applying action research to Lego which was undergoing a profound [...]

The following post is a review/critique of : Otnes, C., Lowrey, T., and Shrum, L.J. 1997. Towards an understanding of Consumer Ambivalence. Journal of Consumer Research, 24: 80- First, I enjoyed reading the article. It articulates the main ideas in a clear, straightforward and convincing manner and the qualitative flavored quotes provide richness and meanings [...]

The following post is a review/critique of : Sitkin, S. B., & Weingart, L. R. (1995). Determinants of risky decision-making behavior: A test of the mediating role of risk perceptions and propensity. Academy of Management Journal, 38 (6), 1573-1592. This article aims to contribute to the extensive research on human risk taking behaviors by suggesting [...]