CNAIS博士生论坛 - Jump-Start Your Career as a Scholar - 李大辉

– By means of your advisor and faculty
• Build your own asset base • Develop the resources
– For your advisor
What type of power source?
• CADILAC
– The VIPs
• My own experience
– First three years
• Browne(4), Lin(3)Lou(2)Chau(6)
– Next four years
• Lai (10)
– After these
• Zheng(2+), Wang (1+), Xu(2+) • Several other doctoral students • Bell(1+) and Pierce(…)
• My own experience
– The stopping rule thing
What type of research?
• Significance: Taking on “Grand Challenges”
– bold ideas – less conventional approaches – large, unresolved problems – new paradigms or open new pastures
– It‟s better to substitute phrasing like
• The findings suggest.., Tentatively…,Moderate relationships…
The cop
• Follow the rule
The cop
•No theory •Concepts and Operationalization Not in Alignment •Insufficient Definition •Not Relevant to the Field •Overengineering
• PEER ALTO
– Your colleagues
What type of power source?
• PROFESSIONAL CHARGER
– Your advisor
What type of cable?
What type of network?
What type of network?
What type of research?
• Novelty: Changing the Conversation
– new vocabulary – new ideas or constructs – new insights – knowledge recombination
What type of research?
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What you can do about it?
• The story – Storytelling explains the “why” • Full discussion – Openness – The rationale
Jump-Start Your Career as a Scholar
Dahui Li(李大辉）, Ph.D. Professor of MIS Chair, Department of Finance and MIS Labovitz School of Business and Economics
• Curiosity: Catching and Holding Attention
– deeper, more persistent, and more immersive processing of information – counter propositions – surprising findings – not know the ending
Who you are
• Your background • Your competence • Your personality
Who you are
• My own experience
– My background – My competence – My personality
My suggestions
• Make friends from different domains
My suggestions
• Create synergy • Seek help
What type of battery?
• REACTIVE
– Waiting to be charged
• RECHARGEABLE
– Willing to be charged
– Thought and practice rather than mechanical technique
What you can do about it?
• Don‟t Exaggerate – The true base of study – Avoid statements like
• The findings prove…, Certainly.., Very strong relationship..
What type of research?
• Scope: Casting a Wider Net
– adequately sampled – relevant constructs, mechanisms, and perspectives – too narrow
What type of research?
•Insufficient Rationale-Design •Macrostructure-Organization and Flow •Amateur Style and Tone •Conclusion Not in Alignment
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•Inadequate Research Design
What you can do about it?
• Listen to your reviewers
– Do not blame the reviewers – Toward the right message and content
• Allow the Manuscript to Ripen Naturally
• • • • • • Smart? Motivated Creative? Hard working Skillful Lucky?
What type of climate?
• HARBIN • CHENGDU
What type of climate?
Where you are
• Extrinsic factors
– Resources – Faculty – Student
Where you are
• My own experience
– Resources – Faculty – Student
• Doctoral program • UMD
My suggestions
• Recognize and utilize the resources
• Actionability: Insights for Practice
– insights for managerial or organizational practice – counterintuitive insights – highlighting new and important practices – showing inconsistencies in, and consequences of, practices
What you can do about it?
• Macrostructure
– logical flow
• Operational base
– The theory, result, and discussion must all correspond to the operational base.
• RECYCLABLE
– For o Self-generating
What type of battery?
• Extrinsic • Intrinsic
What type of battery?
• My own experience
– Survival – Growth
Outline
• • • • • What vehicle? What climate? What power source and cable? What battery? Which way?
What type of vehicle?
• AUDI • ALTO
Who you are
• • • • • • Smart? Motivated? Creative? Hard working? Skillful? Lucky?
• Allocate Your Resources
– Allocate to activities that yield the most tangible accomplishments – Learn to say „no‟ – investing in your relationship
The way
My Suggestions
• 4-3-3 system
– 4 under review – 3 data collections – 3 new projects