ACCO Summary Web Clips, Info Skills, and Articles
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Week 1.......................................................................................................................................................... 2
Web clip ‘What is a master thesis’.......................................................................................................................2
Info skills module A...............................................................................................................................................2
Info skills module B...............................................................................................................................................5
Info skills module C...............................................................................................................................................7
Info skills module D+E..........................................................................................................................................9
Week 2........................................................................................................................................................ 10
Web clip Referencing and plagiarism.................................................................................................................10
Web clip selecting good-quality literature.........................................................................................................10
Web clip extended literature search..................................................................................................................10
Web clip outline of research proposal................................................................................................................11
Week 3........................................................................................................................................................ 12
Web clip How to read and analyze a paper.......................................................................................................12
Suddaby, R. (2010). Editor's comments:Construct clarity in theories of............................................................16
management and organization. Academy of Management Review, 35(3), 346-357.......................................16
Week 4........................................................................................................................................................ 18
Web clip Developing research ideas..................................................................................................................18
Webster, J. & Watson, R.T. (2002). Analyzing the past to prepare for the future: writing a literature review.
MIS Quarterly 26(2), 13-23................................................................................................................................20
Irlbeck, S. A., & Thornton, N. (2012). Defining Research Problems: Processes for Beginning Researchers. In
Instructional Technology Research, Design and Development: Lessons from the Field (pp. 25-42). IGI Global.
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Week 5........................................................................................................................................................ 29
Makadok, R., Burton, R., & Barney, J. (2018). A practical guide for making theory contributions in strategic
management. Strategic Management Journal, 39(6), 1530-1545....................................................................29
Alvesson, M., & Sandberg, J. (2013). Gap-Spotting: The prevalent way of constructing research questions in
social science. In Alvesson, M., & Sandberg, J. (Eds.), Constructing research questions: Doing interesting
research (pp. 24-37)...........................................................................................................................................34
Week 6........................................................................................................................................................ 37
Web clip ‘Formulating problem statement and research question’..................................................................37
Varpio, L., Paradis, E., Uijtdehaage, S., & Young, M. (2020). The distinctions between theory, theoretical
framework, and conceptual framework. Academic Medicine, 95(7), 989-994.................................................40
Week 7........................................................................................................................................................ 43
Edmondson, A.C., McManus, S.E. (2007). Methodological fit in management field research. Academy of
Management Review, 32(4), 1155-1179...........................................................................................................43
,Week 1
Web clip ‘What is a master thesis’
Build up Master thesis: Introduction Theory Method Results Discussions and
Conclusions
Introduction:
- Why is the topic interesting?
- Exact problem statement
- What kind of data and method
Theory:
- In-depth overview of existing literature
- Goal to create best possible research
- Builds up to what will be tested
Method:
- Why this kind of data?
- Why this data origin?
- Why this method?
Results:
- Actual empirical outcomes
- Tables and graphs
- Helicopter view
Discussion and conclusions:
- Answer to problem statement
- Reflection on unexpected results
- Implications and future research
Info skills module A
, Traditionally published source: Traditionally published sources come from a commercial or
academic publisher.
What makes a source scholarly?
- Authors: written by academics who are experts in the field of study. Authors’ names
are listed with credentials/ degrees and places of employment, which are often
universities or research institutions.
- Language: advanced vocabulary or specialized language intended for other scholars
in the field, not for the average reader.
- Citation: scholarly sources refer to (cite) the origins of information and ideas the
author has used to support his/her argument.
Article types published by scholarly journals:
- Theoretical articles present new or alternative ways of thinking about a subject,
challenge existing theory, or synthesize recent advances and ideas into new theory.
- Research articles (also called original or empirical articles) report of new research. In
the sciences, economics, and the social sciences this is a highly valued article type.
Research articles typically include an extensive description of how the research was
done and what the results mean.
- Review articles (also referred to as 'reviews') summarize the current state of
knowledge about a research topic. Recent reviews are very helpful to quickly get an
overview of a topic.
- Case studies are reports in which an individual, event or phenomenon is the subject of
study. Purpose is not to generalize, but to let others know similar things (e.g., a
medical condition, job stress) may occur elsewhere.
- Book reviews are relatively short articles that provide insight and opinion on recently
published scholarly books (monographs). These articles are not considered scholarly
even though they are written by scholars, but they can help identify suitable books that
are.
Structure of a scholarly article:
- Article title
- Abstract (the article’s summary containing the key points discussed)
- Introduction or literature review
- Article text/body
For research articles the article body typically consists of 2 parts, a Methods and
Results section
- Discussion
- Conclusion (may be part of the discussion)
- References
