How to Write a Thesis?

Umberto Eco was one of these professors. In 1977, just before he became famous for The Name of the Rose, he wrote a small handbook to help struggling students. How to Write a Thesis has been in print for over 40 years. Used and beloved by generations of students

Writing and publishing a scientific paper

Writing and publishing journal articles are essential aspects of a successful scientific career. Unfortunately, many scientists find the process of communicating about their work intimidating and confusing. Now in its eighth edition, How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper teaches how to apply clear focus,

Research methodology: a step-by-step guide for beginners

The book of Research Methodology: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners integrates various quantitative and qualitative methodologies into eight practice-based-steps, providing lots of examples throughout to link theory with practice. Written specifically for students with no previous experience of research and research methodology, the writing style is

What Is a Thesis, and Why Is It Required?

A thesis is a typewritten manuscript, usually 100 to 400 pages in length, in which the student addresses

The Usefulness of a Thesis after Graduation

There are two ways to write a thesis that is useful after graduation. A student can write a

What Is Scientific Writing?

1. THE SCOPE OF SCIENTIFIC WRITING The term scientific writing commonly denotes the reporting of original research in

Historical Perspectives IMRAD organization of scientific papers

1. THE EARLY HISTORY Human beings have been able to communicate for thousands of years. Yet scientific communication

Where to Submit Your Manuscript to academic journals

1. WHY DECIDE EARLY, WHY DECIDE WELL Too often, authors write scientific papers and then consider where to

Data Analysis Using STATA: Use and Interpretation

Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package created in 1985 by StataCorp. The name Stata is a syllabic abbreviation of the

Data Analysis Using IBM SPSS: Use and Interpretation

SPSS means “Statistical Package for the Social Sciences” and was first launched in 1968. Since SPSS was acquired by IBM in 2009,

Introduction to IBM AMOS SPSS

AMOS is statistical software and it stands for analysis of a moment structures. AMOS is an added SPSS module, and is specially

Economics of the firmSee all

 

 

Corporate Marketing Management
13/12/2017

Corporate Marketing refers to activities a company undertakes to promote the buying or selling of a product, service, or good. It is one of the primary components of business management and commerce. Marketers can direct their product to other businesses (B2B marketing) or directly to consumers (B2C marketing). Regardless of

9 Comments

Sales Management: Meaning, Objectives, Functions, Scope, Process, Determinants, Tools and Other Details
03/01/2018

Sales management is a business discipline which is focused on the practical application of sales techniques and the management of a firm’s sales operations. It is an important business function as net sales through the sale of products and services and resulting profit drive most commercial business. These are also typically the goals and performance indicators of sales management. Sales manager is the typical title of someone

8 Comments

Retail Management: Definition, Processes, Best Practices
03/01/2018

Retail Management is the process which helps the customers to procure the desired merchandise form the retail stores for their personal use. It includes all the steps required to bring the customers into the store and fulfill their buying needs. Such management saves time and ensures the customers easily locate

5 Comments

 

 

International Business – Meaning, Process, Types & Factors
05/01/2018

International business refers to the trade of goods, services, technology, capital and/or knowledge across national borders and at a global or transnational scale. It involves cross-border transactions of goods and services between two or more countries. Transactions of economic resources include capital, skills, and people for the purpose of the international production of physical goods and

5 Comments

E-commerce Business: How to Build, Launch, and Grow a Profitable Online Store
07/01/2018

E-commerce (also known as electronic commerce) Business is the process of buying and selling of products or services, making money transfers, and transferring data over an electronic medium (Internet). This network allows people to do business without the constraint of distance and time. There are various types of online business

6 Comments

Enterprise Project Management: meaning, benefits, process and best practices
08/01/2018

Traditional project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time. Enterprise project management puts the focus on the enterprise, prioritizing and highlighting its business goals and managing and grouping projects to ensure they meet those broader organizational

2 Comments

 

Logistics Management: meaning, functions, importance, process and best practices
08/01/2018

Logistics refers to the overall process of managing how resources are acquired, stored, and transported to their final destination. Logistics management involves identifying prospective distributors and suppliers and determining their effectiveness and accessibility. This is the process of strategically managing the procurement, movement and storage of materials, parts and finished

4 Comments

Supply Chain and Supply Chain Management
08/01/2018

A supply chain is a network between a company and its suppliers to produce and distribute a specific product to the final buyer. This network includes different activities, people, entities, information, and resources. The chain also represents a series of steps involved to get a product or service to the

5 Comments

Management Information System
15/01/2018

Management Information System (MIS) is the study of people, technology, organizations, and the relationships among them. MIS professionals help firms realize maximum benefit from investment in personnel, equipment, and business processes. MIS is a people-oriented field with an emphasis on service through technology. If you have an interest in technology

6 Comments

 

Recent Posts

Model Selection Strategy in Modern Panel Data Econometrics
25/06/2026
How to Use the Program Editor to Conceptualize Your Model and Run the Analysis
31/03/2023
How to Use Plugins to Create a Model Instead of Drawing a Model in AMOS
31/03/2023
Using Specification Search to Perform Exploratory Factor Analysis in SEM
31/03/2023
Post-Hoc Power Analysis in SEM
31/03/2023
Non-Recursive Models (Feedback Loops) in SEM
31/03/2023
Analyzing Censored Data in SEM
31/03/2023
Mixture Structural Equation Modeling
31/03/2023
How to Use Bootstrapping to Account for Non-Normal Data in SEM
31/03/2023
Using Weighted Scores in AMOS
31/03/2023
Latent Growth Curves Across Two Domains
31/03/2023
Latent Growth Curves With Nonlinear Patterns
31/03/2023
How Do I Present My Latent Growth Curve Results?
31/03/2023

Management ScienceSee all

Corporate Management Science: scope and main contents
13/12/2018

Corporate management science is the broad interdisciplinary study of problem solving and decision making in human organizations, with strong links to management, economics, business, engineering, management consulting, and other fields. It uses various scientific research-based principles, strategies, and analytical methods including mathematical modeling, statistics and numerical algorithms to improve an

MicroeconomicsSee all

Microeconomics: Introduction to Supply and Demand
13/02/2018

Microeconomics (from Greek prefix mikro- meaning “small” + economics) is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms. One goal of microeconomics is to analyze the market mechanisms that establish relative prices among goods and services and

Theories of the firmSee all

Definition of Theory of the Firm
05/02/2019

By definition, a theory of the firm is an analysis of the behavior of companies that examine inputs, production methods, output and prices. This is a microeconomic concept that states that a firm exists and make decisions to maximize profits by creating a gap between revenue and costs. The first elementary examination

Systems Theory
04/02/2019

Systems theory is the interdisciplinary study of systems. A system is a cohesive group of interrelated and interdependent parts which can be natural or human-made. Every system is bounded by space and

Organizational learning theory
04/02/2019

Organizational learning theory states that, in order to be competitive in a changing environment, organizations must change their goals and actions to reach those goals.

Hyper-competition theory
04/02/2019

The hyper-competition theory analyzes the rapid and dynamic competition characterized by unsustainable advantage. It is the condition of rapid escalation of competition based on price-quality

Resource-based theory
04/02/2019

According to resource-based theory, organizations that own “strategic resources” have important competitive advantages over organizations that do not. Some resources, such as cash and trucks,

Transaction Cost Economics
04/02/2019

In transaction cost economics and related disciplines, a transaction cost is a cost incurred in making an economic exchange. A number of different kinds of

Theory of Organizational structure
04/02/2019

An organizational structure defines how activities such as task allocation, coordination, and supervision are directed toward the achievement of organizational aims. According to the Theory of Organizational structure, organizational

Theory of Organizational Power
04/02/2019

Max Weber (1947) in his classical organization theory exemplified power in an organization through the process of control. Weber related authority to legitimacy, implying that

Decision Theory
04/02/2019

Decision theory (or the theory of choice not to be confused with choice theory) is the study of an agent’s choices. Decision theory can be broken into two branches: normative one,

Agency Theory
04/02/2019

Agency theory is a principle that is used to explain and resolve issues in the relationship between business principals and their agents. Most commonly, that

Theory of the Visible Hand
04/02/2019

The theory of the visible hand of Alfred D. Chandler determined that it was not the invisible hand of the market that determined corporate effectiveness

Theory of Competitive Advantage
04/02/2019

Michael Porter proposed the theory of competitive advantage in 1985. The competitive advantage theory suggests that states and businesses should pursue policies that create high-quality

Evolutionary Theory of the Firm
04/02/2019

Nelson and Winter argue that an evolutionary theory of organization is a superior description of firm behavior than orthodox views around optimization and that routines

Organizational Ecology Theory
04/02/2019

Organizational ecology theory examines how organizational populations change and develop over time through stages of founding, growth, transformation, decline, and death (Hannan & Freeman, 1977,

Behavioral theory of the firm
04/02/2019

The behavioral theory of the firm first appeared in the 1963 book A Behavioral Theory of the Firm by Richard M. Cyert and James G. March. The work

Contingency Theory
04/02/2019

A contingency theory is a theory of the firm that claims that there is no best way to organize a corporation, to lead a company, or

Institutional Theory
04/02/2019

In sociology and organizational studies, institutional theory is a theory on the deeper and more resilient aspects of social structure. It considers the processes by which structures, including schemes, rules, norms, and

Resource dependence theory
03/02/2019

Resource dependence theory (RDT) is the study of how the external resources of organizations affect the behavior of the organization. The procurement of external resources

Property Rights Theory
03/02/2019

The property rights approach to the theory of the firm based on the incomplete contracting paradigm that argue that in the real world, contracts are

The Invisible hand of Adam Smith
01/02/2019

The invisible hand describes the unintended social benefits of an individual’s self-interested actions, a concept that was first introduced by Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, written in

Research Methodology in ManagementSee all

What Is Research Methodology?
09/08/2019

Research methodology simply refers to the practical “how” of any given piece of research. More specifically, it’s about how a researcher systematically designs a study to ensure valid and reliable results that address the research aims and objectives. For example, how did the researcher go about deciding: What data to collect (and what data to

Research methodology: a step-by-step guide for beginners
10/08/2019

The book of Research Methodology: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners integrates various quantitative and qualitative methodologies into eight practice-based-steps, providing lots of examples throughout to link theory with practice. Written specifically for students with no previous experience of research and research methodology, the writing style is simple and clear and

3 Comments

Doing Management Research: A Comprehensive Guide
10/08/2019

This book provides refreshing and powerful insights on the challenges of conducting management research from a European perspective. Particularly for someone embarking on a management research career this book will provide valuable guidelines.’ — Ian MacMillan, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. This comprehensive volume is distinguished by its

2 Comments

How to Write a Thesis?
01/10/2021

Umberto Eco was one of these professors. In 1977, just before he became famous for The Name of the Rose, he wrote a small handbook to help struggling students. How to Write a Thesis has been in print for over 40 years. Used and beloved by generations of students in Europe and beyond,

2 Comments

A Comparison of R, Python, SAS, SPSS and STATA for a Best Statistical Software
23/10/2019

Common statistics program packages differ considerably in terms of their strengths, weaknesses, and handling. The decision as to which system is the best fit should be made with care. Changing to a new system can result in high costs for things like new licenses and re-training. This article introduces and

Data Analysis Using STATA: Use and Interpretation
23/10/2019

Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package created in 1985 by StataCorp. The name Stata is a syllabic abbreviation of the words statistics and data. The FAQ for the official forum of Stata insists that the correct English pronunciation of Stata “must remain a mystery”; any of “Stay-ta”, “Sta-ta” or “Stah-ta” (rhymes of the three pronunciations of ‘data’) are considered acceptable.

Data Analysis Using IBM SPSS: Use and Interpretation
23/10/2019

SPSS means “Statistical Package for the Social Sciences” and was first launched in 1968. Since SPSS was acquired by IBM in 2009, it’s officially known as IBM SPSS Statistics but most users still just refer to it as “SPSS”. SPSS is software for editing and analyzing all sorts of data. These data may come

Writing and publishing a scientific paper
04/10/2021

Writing and publishing journal articles are essential aspects of a successful scientific career. Unfortunately, many scientists find the process of communicating about their work intimidating and confusing. Now in its eighth edition, How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper teaches how to apply clear focus, good organization, and simple,

3 Comments

Sumérgete en la emoción del casino con nuestros crupieres en vivo, donde betano te conecta directamente al corazón del juego, sintiendo cada giro y cada apuesta en tiempo real.

Visited 10,100 times, 582 visit(s) today