The challenges of navigating a topic to a prospective researcher: the case of knowledge management research
Jasimuddin, Sajjad M., Connell, Con and Klein, Jonathan H. (2005) The challenges of navigating a topic to a prospective researcher: the case of knowledge management research. Management Research News, 28, (1), 62-76. (doi:10.1108/01409170510784715).
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Exploring a researchable topic and narrowing it down sufficiently to make it workable is a first task in any scientific research. This is particularly difficult when the researcher is a novice, because s(he) is unlikely to be properly aware of what the essential issues and the research question(s) in the field are. This article addresses the question of how to navigate a research topic for an academic project. The article is potentially of interest to novice researchers and researchers new to a field. Illustrating its argument by means of an example in the area of knowledge management, the article proposes a set of guidelines for narrowing down a research topic to workable size. A number of recommendations are made; by utilizing these recommendations to construct a navigation map, it is hoped that a researcher can use fully formulate research question(s). It can be argued that drawing such a navigation map is an art in which prospective researchers need to be trained.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| ISSNs: | 0140-9174 (print) |
| Keywords: | knowledge management, knowledge transfer, literature review, navigation process, research question, source material |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Management |
| Item ID: | 39879 |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 13:08 |
| Contributors: | Jasimuddin, Sajjad M. (Author) Connell, Con (Author) Klein, Jonathan H. (Author) |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/39879 |
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