MBA research?

I am working on my MBA and cannot seem to find enough real research in my area of interest. What do I do?

Thanks,

Mariola

Yours is a common problem that is not limited to areas of business, especially if yours is a new solution to either an old or new problem.

What you do is search for research related to each area of your thesis. For example, why did you choose your particular research design? There will actually be research related to why your research design should be used in your particular setting and with your particular sample. You might also investigate your conceptual framework. There should be a number of studies on why and when that particular conceptual framework should be used. You might also find a second conceptual framework theory that complements the one you are already using. I also suggest that you look for research surrounding the initial definition of the problem you are attempting to resolve, as well as examine the research surrounding attempts that have been made to resolve the problem through the years. Reviews of this type of literature would go in a History of the Problem section, probably right after your introduction to the Review of Literature. While you are at it, don't forget about the statistical package you are using. Some of these are old, but improved, while others are brand new on the market. This is an area of technology that changes so rapidly that you really do need to document it somewhere toward the end of your Review of Literature, especially if it has been used by other researchers in your primary field of study.

Finally, where are you searching for articles? Use the Internet. Go to Google and search for: free "full text" articles "your topic" business. When you get the return, you don't have to print them all. You can copy them into MS-Word documents and save them to your computer for later reading. If you do this, remember to highlight the article itself and only copy that part of the page. If you use the "select all" feature, you will be copying all sorts of extraneous graphics you don't need. In the end, I would say that a good review/critique of about forty relevant articles should give you a Review of Literature that will be just fine.

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Thank you very much! Your comments helped me a lot!

Mariola