Hi everyone, it is very exciting to meet all of you in Professor Kerry Jacobs's class (BUSN 8018 Qualitative Research Methods).
Wednesday's class about ‘the rules of the game’ was quite interesting. According to the class, as an academic person, we have to follow the ‘rules of the game’ in academic competition and those who have powers in academic make the rules for academic game. However, as far as I know, there exits more than one academic group who have the power to ‘make rules’. For example, in accounting academia, four top A accounting journals have the power to allow particular accounting papers to be published. My question is that ‘are they going to and how can they compete with each other to gain more power in accounting academia?’ And a following question is that ‘is it a good idea to talk with the examiner of our paper reviewers/chairman of a particular journal to get equipped with the rules of the game if we want to involve in the publication of that journal?’
One good research project should identify research gaps in relevant disciplines so that contributions can be made. However, I found that it was really difficult to find research gabs when starting a new research project. Can anyone tell me are there any steps or ways that we can follow to look for research gaps?
Look forward to seeing all of you again in week two’s class.
Yours Sincerely,
Alex Wang
