This course aims to start DBA students along the path to their own research work and ultimately, the dissertation. While DDBA 800 provided various conceptual foundations of management research, this course will ask you to explore your own specific research area(s) of interest.
Outline
This course is divided into 10 Weeks.
Week 1: Growing Your Managerial Persona into a Researcher Persona by Thinking Critically
Week 2 & 3: The Thesis Research Question and Student Discussion Leadership
Week 4: Begin Literature Review and Student Discussion Leadership
Weeks 5-9: Student Led Research Inquiry and Mini-Literature Review Discussion
Week 10: Independent Work
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
think broadly about research ideas and your research question, instilling a spirit of critical inquiry as you bridge the practitioner and scholarly worlds
discover research that has already been done in your interest area(s)
develop and refine potential research question(s) that contribute uniquely to the academic literature (e.g., questions that have not already been fully answered and filling that gap)
write a first draft of a literature review
Materials
Browne, M. N., & Keeley, S. M. (2018). Asking the right questions: A guide to critical thinking (12th ed.). Pearson. (eText)
Ridley, D. (2012). The literature review: A step-by-step guide for students (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. (eText)
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized study counterparts.