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WHY THERE IS NO “INSIGNIFICANCE” FOR A RELEVANT QUESTION
Author(s) -
HOLWEG MATTHIAS
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of supply chain management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.75
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1745-493X
pISSN - 1523-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-493x.2011.03249.x
Subject(s) - insignificance , task (project management) , safeguard , law and economics , business , computer science , positive economics , political science , public relations , psychology , sociology , social psychology , economics , law , management
Defining the Ph.D. research topic is a non‐trivial task, and will influence a young scholar's career way beyond the actual defence of the thesis. This note makes a case for allowing the research topic to be inspired by real‐world problems and phenomena, and to let the world of practice challenge the resulting findings. This, it is argued, will lead to a personally more satisfying and sustainable research career, as well as act as an effective safeguard against so called “insignificant” or “counter‐intuitive” findings.