Links & Resources on Doctoral Research

Deciding to Join a Doctoral Programme

On pursuing a doctoral degree in business/management http://www.hbs.edu/doctoral/SYOA/
Questions to ask, before applying http://www.phd-survey.org/advice/advice.htm
Things to do and things to avoid in a PhD Career http://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/4/back.html

Doing Doctoral Research

General Tips/Guidelines

Networking on the Network http://vlsicad.ucsd.edu/Research/Advice/network.html
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds4-4/network.html
http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Virtual_community/networking_on_the_network.paper
Managing Doctoral Research http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/opas/intd.html
Tips for PhD Students http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ics/phdtips.htm
Tips for PhD Students http://theory.org.uk/david/essay.htm
How to be an effective doctoral student http://www.terry.uga.edu/~jaronson/LongAdvicetoDoctoralStudents.html
Information for MSc and PhD Students http://www.cs.uct.ac.za/dept/MScPhD/info-booklet.html

On Academic Writing

Writing Research Articles
The science of scientific writing http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/the-science-of-scientific-writing
A guide for writing research papers http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/index.htm
Hypertext writing guide http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/apa4b.htm
APA style resources http://www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm
On academic writing http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wstarbuc/Writing/Fussy.htm
http://kerlins.net/bobbi/education/writing/styleguides.html

Writing Research Proposals
http://www2.smumn.edu/deptpages/~tcwritingcenter/Forms_of_Writing/ResearchProposal.htm
[PDF] http://www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/Documents/PhDResPropPrepGuide.pdf
http://www.warnborough.edu/Resources/proposal.htm
http://www.phs.utoronto.ca/ssh_phd_thesis_guidelines.asp
http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho/programmes/phd/phd-prop-guidelines.htm
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/thesis.html
[DOC] http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/offices/urco/guidelines/Guidelines.doc

Writing Doctoral Thesis
http://www.learnerassociates.net/dissthes/
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arp/grounded.html
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/art/arthome.html
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/art/cperry.html
http://www.gradschool.uts.edu.au/star/thesis/index.html
http://www2.ems.uq.edu.au/phdweb/phhome.html
http://www.usq.edu.au/library/help/postgrad/default.htm
http://www.uow.edu.au/research/rsc/student/resources/UOW009059.html
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/thesis.html

On Research Methods

Introductory Statistics http://www.psychstat.missouristate.edu/introbook/sbk00.htm
Research Assistant http://www.educ.dab.uts.edu.au/researchassistant/map.html
Several links on methods http://www.slais.ubc.ca/resources/research_methods/
Methods in behavioural research http://methods.fullerton.edu/
Various research methods http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/amoebaweb/index.aspx?doc_id=853
http://kerlins.net/scott/edresearchmethods.html
http://informationr.net/rm/
Qualitative research methods http://www.qual.auckland.ac.nz/
Threats to construct validity http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/tutorial/Driebe/tweb1.htm

Masters/PhD Theses

University of Pretoria Electronic Theses and Dissertations
http://upetd.up.ac.za/UPeTD.htm
Towards reconstructing meaning when text is communicated electronically (Alexander, 2002)
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08192002-155431/
The Fiscal Crisis of the American Public Research University and Its Impact on Faculty (Kerlin, 1992)
http://kerlins.net/bobbi/research/skerlin/abstract.html
Toward a Theory of Women's Doctoral Persistence (Kerlin, 1997)
http://kerlins.net/bobbi/research/diss/toc.html
Modelling Cognitive Aspects of Complex Control Tasks (Grant, 1990)
http://www.simongrant.org/pubs/thesis/index.html
An Action Research Perspective of Group Support Systems: How to Improve Meetings in Hong Kong (Davison, 1998)
http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/staff/isrobert/phd/phd.htm
Information Systems Development as Action Research: Soft Systems Methodology and Structuration Theory (Rose, 2000)
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~jeremy/Publications.htm
Problematizing the Digital Divide: Cultural and Social Reproduction in a Community Technology Initiative (Kvasny, 2002)
http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/lkvasny/
Vocabulary of Agency: Development and Assessment of a Generic Conceptual Framework to Guide Action-Oriented Research in Multiple Domains (Dash, 1999)
http://www.ximb.ac.in/~dpdash/PhD.htm

Working Papers, Research Networks

Management Science http://www.managementscience.org/papers.aspx
Marketing http://docsig.eci.gsu.edu/
Information Systems http://www.aisnet.org/index.asp
NSE Research Initiative http://nseindia.com/content/research/res_issues.htm
Foster Business Library, University of Washington http://www.lib.washington.edu/business/abl.html
Kopolow Business Library, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis http://www.olin.wustl.edu/library/other/wp.cfm
Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/Research/Resources/wp/isw-wp.htm
Social Science Information Gateway http://www.sosig.ac.uk/business/
Social Science Research Network http://www.ssrn.com/
Biz/ed Internet Catalogue http://catalogue.bized.ac.uk/
Louisiana State University Libraries (Management and Entrepreneurship) http://www.lib.lsu.edu/bus/managemt.html
S-WoBA: Scandinavian Working Papers in Business Administration http://swoba.hhs.se/series.htm
Finance Site List, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/journal/jofsites.htm
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics http://repec.org/
EconPapers http://econpapers.hhs.se/paper/


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