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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