NCKU IIMBA Orientation - Doing Research
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Research and Reports
What you never knew you wanted to know
Qbook.tv (professor Warden’s site)
Stanworth’s suggestions
Dabblings in EndNote
Explorations in styles and formatting
Created a usable Thesis Template
Saw fellow classmatians struggle
Spread the gems
Share the love
Tell me why!
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Today’s Agenda
Research
Public search engines and E-Resources
EndNote as a research tool
Report writing
Templates, styles and formatting
Table of contents
Citing and bibliographies
Other tips
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THESIS TEMPLATE
Business Research
Must be able to answer
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Qualitative Quantitative
Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
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A Defense Must
Know key articles
Articles
Original Research Meta-Analysis
Previous Research
Databases Journals Other
Journals
Highest academic impact
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Academy of Management Journal (AMJ)
Academy of Management Review (AMR)
Strategic Management Journal (SMJ)
Highest managerial influence
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Leading Journals
Economics
American Economic Review; Rand Journal of Economics; Journal of Industrial Economics
Sociology
American Sociological Review; American Journal of Sociology, and Social forces;
Marketing
Journal of Marketing; Journal of Marketing Research; Marketing Science
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Management
Academy of Management Journal; Academy of Management Review; Organization Science
Finance
Journal of Finance; Journal of Financial Economics
MIS/IT
MIS Quarterly; Information System Research; Journal of MIS; Information and Management; Decision Support System
Leading Journals (cont.)
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Search Engines/Databases
Google Scholar
On NCKU E-Resources
SSCI (Social Science Citation Index )
ABI/Inform Archive Complete
JSTOR
EBSCO Host – Business Source Complete
Some databases …
…download article faster than others
…have FullText PDF while others have Picture
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Searching Topics Through Google Scholar for articles/books
Through Databases for articles in different journals
Interlibrary loans
Through specific journals
Specific Article Through specific journals
Through databases
Through Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Search for Specific Article
Williams, C. 2007. Transfer in context: Replication and
adaptation in knowledge transfer relationships. Strategic
Management Journal, 28 (9): 867-889.
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www.lib.ncku.edu.tw
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Tools Internet Options
rpa.lib.ncku.edu.tw
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Great resource:
iNCKU provides access to online survey
creation and distribution
Great flexibility in design
Question types
Set up
Languages
Gathers all responses
Can export into excel/SPSS
Want to know more? Contact FILI!
Survey Distribution
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Required thesis template
Styles and formatting in MS Word Some extra tips
EndNote
Adobe Acrobat Professional
Downloading of software Ribbon mapping workbook 2003 vs 2007
Interactive 2003 vs 2007
Detailed How-To’s available
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http://iim.incku.com/resources
Not willing to upgrade to 2007?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.
aspx?familyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-
c6bb74cd1466&displayLang=en#
Allows you to open Office 2007 documents in
Office 2003
Conservative or Slow on the Uptake?
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Lets you make notes on the article
Lets you copy text into notes
Lets you export your notes to a separate
file
See “How-To” online
Adobe Acrobat Professional
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Research tool
Download from E-Resources
Helps organize your research material
Information all gathered in one place
Add your own research notes
Easy to search
Helps for easy citing in your report
Automatically formats it in desired format
Automatically inserts bibliography information
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NOTE
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The rest of the presentation is
done through physical showing
of software, not through PPT
presentation; the following slides
are just a summary of what will
be covered.
New library New reference (type of reference) APA 5th
Import references Export references from database/online Ensure data is correct and complete
Link/attach file Use research notes!! Searching within references Groups Sharing library Duplicate references
Introduction to EndNote X2
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Managerial versus academic
Templates in word
Report
Style
Why styles and formatting is important
Table of contents
Change styles later
Applying styles
“Normal” is the base of all
Report Writing
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Based on styles
Insert TOC
Make changes to it in body rather than in
TOC
Format TOC
Update TOC
Table of Contents
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Tabs
Page breaks
Soft paragraph break
Section breaks Footer/header and page direction can be different
Outline format
Tables (templates/styles)
Save as PDF (vs print to PDF) for printing and sharing
Help function
Other Tips
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IIMBA – follow APA 5th
In MS Word – EndNote tab
Insert Reference
Edit citation
Remove citation
Bibliography
Edit reference
Update word references
Citations
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What it is and how to use it
Importing outline/work already completed
If not already been using template
Remove formatting
Copy in
Apply appropriate styles as per requirements
in How-To
Update references
Check bibliography (may have to move it to
appropriate place if not already there
Thesis Template
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