Key Pitfalls in Conducting Research in A Business Discipline: Five Actionable Suggestions
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Many researchers have gone through several typical academic stages, moving from writing a master's thesis to completing a doctoral dissertation to submitting their manuscripts to scholarly journals for possible publication to getting a tenure (and/or academic promotion) based on their research outputs. In the process, some scholars have had great successes, while others might not realize their full potential. In this article, I identify key weaknesses often observed in many rejected research papers and offer five actionable suggestions to help researchers eliminate such weaknesses and achieve better outcomes.
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