Overview of items looked at today during the final seminar for BU4061
- What is DBA? Like MBA, but higher. Worth 120k and not claimable on HECS
- Autism - High Functioning Autism: Did Temple Grandin have many issues with her disability? Issues of bullying while in school. As an adult, had issues with harassment in workplace, though in academia is respected.
- Conferences? Conferences not common in early career, though in later stages, larger volume of conferences presented, and is also now lecturing.
- Noted as being very observant - how did she make her discoveries? Re: Stressed Animals Could relate to cattle because of autism. Felt there were similarities.
- Grandin: How many publications with other academics? Very few
- Kaplan: At 17 years old, enrolling in university - US, normally 18 years? Unsure
- Conferences? Presentations, not many - teaches at the school. Done a lot of course work.
- By 1st, 2nd and 3rd author - in what sense does that apply? Alphabetical order or something else?
Conclusion of subject:
Paradigms, Disciplines, Tribes, Individuals
- Looking at the concepts, of what they mean and how they work in research
- Methods of data collection
- Methodology - recruiting people, researcher position, form of analysis
- Paradigms - what type of paradigm are you working within
Cultures of Research Beyond University
- Business Research and the Consulting Culture
- Government Research and Policy Culture
- Academic Culture
Business:
- Developing Profitability
- Protect and build a case against regulations and perceived problems and deal with change
- Paradigms: often positivist or post positivist
- Methods: dependent on consultants, surveys, plus archival data
- Developing systems, eg, HR, which are sold and promoted, eg. future business forecasts
- Time and timing - strict timelines
- Payment - variable
- Not open to refutation - limited circulation of reports
Government:
- Assist in development of policy and regulation
- Respond to problems arising in the community
- Paradigms: Post Positivist (can also be interpretative)
- Methods: eclectic, largely review and profiling, surveys
- Development: inter-government referencing, some academic use
- Payment - good generally, reliable
- Time frames - varied, including desirable delay
- Open to refutation - acceptable, public
Clash of worlds
- Topics allocated, not selected
- Answers are generally 'desired' = client satisfaction
- Big occasions of presenting work - presentations big issue
Relevant De-constructed
- Time - when
- Sector - agriculture, manufacturing, service, etc
- Scale - local, regional, state, national
- Focus - hotel, all hotels, all accommodation
- Domain - economic, socio-cultural, environmental, administrative
- Style - generating facts or ideas or new perspectives: emancipactory or functional
Knowledge Management
- Is about 3 or 4 steps in the process about deciding what you are doing
- Knowledge Capture - understanding what people know and aligning research objects with that knowledge
- Knowledge Codification - translating findings into decision rules or systems
- Knowledge Diffusion - sytles of delivery as well as roles of intermediaries
Wicked problems
- Many business problems are wicked problems-complex multi-faceted, difficult to define a clear answer
Academy of Hope
- Critical theory and an emancipatory paradigm turn attention to the possibilities of research and education to change the modes of education and build richer personal and public lives
- When do we know enough? Enduring learning e.g. 'You're ready to graduate when the professor says so'
Subject Summary: Aim and hopefully partial achievement - to make explicit what we assume when undertaking research, to locate our research in a context of types of research to better understand our topic, the research of others and each other.
