Description:

The research seminar helps students develop the knowledge and skills to independently and critically analyze and answer a practically and scientifically relevant research question from the area of behavioral management control research.

Students are expected to regularly hand in intermediate products to receive feedback and to participate in a few block seminar sessions that accompany their learning process throughout their research process; the end product will be a research paper, a research presentation, a Q&A, and a discussion of another paper. 

Learning Targets:

Students …

• plan and implement the steps of an empirical research process
• work effectively in a team
• identify and specify a relevant research question
• collect data appropriate to validly answer a research question
• analyze data with appropriate statistical tools
• interpret, discuss, and criticize their results in line with their research question
• present their research in a written paper and in an oral academic presentation
• discuss and constructively criticize their own and others’ research  

Outline:

Selected topics from behavioral management control research; the concrete topic is announced at the beginning of the seminar. 

Literature:

The literature depends on the specific topic. Students will be provided with relevant papers at the beginning of the seminar.

Methods of Assessment:

Research paper and presentation

Formalities:

Calendar Week	Date: Wednesday, …	Time	Place	Agenda of the Meeting	(Intermediate) Research Products/Deadline
43	October 22	08.00 AM-12.00 PM	R11 T08 C01	Kick-off of the seminar Preparation work for Introduction, Theory, and Method sections	Enrollment for the seminar –  October 20, 09.00 AM
47	November 19	08.00 AM-12.00 PM	R11 T06 C85	Feedback on Introduction, Theory, and Method sections Preparation work for Results as well as Discussion & Conclusion sections	Submission of Introduction, Theory, and Method sections (draft) ­–  November 17, 09.00 AM
50					Completion of data collection – December 8, 09.00 AM
3	January 14	08.00 AM-12.00 PM	R11 T08 C01	Feedback on Results as well as Discussion & Conclusion sections Preparation work for final paper, presentation, Q&A, and discussion	Submission of Results as well as Discussion & Conclusion sections (draft)  – January 12, 09.00 AM
4					Submission of final paper to the Chair and the discussants – January 21, 09.00 AM
5	January 28	08.00 AM-02.00 PM	R11 T08 C01	Paper presentations Paper discussions Q&As Wrap-up of the seminar	Submission of presentation slides for paper and for the discussion –  January 27, 06.00 PM

To receive feedback on your intermediate research products (i.e., the Introduction, Theory, and Method sections, as well as the Results, Discussion & Conclusion sections), send the related sections of your paper as a MS-Word document to lucia.bellora-bienengraeber (at) uni-due.de before the deadline. Handing in the intermediate research products is not mandatory, but strongly recommended.

Only documents received before the deadline (i.e., November 17 at 09.00 AM and January 12 at 09.00 AM) and formatted according to the regulations at the Chair will be reviewed. Please always send your document with a cover page including the title of the as well as and the already submitted (and potentially already revised) sections. The supervisor will review the submitted work before the respective meeting (i.e. before November 19 and January 14), provide individual feedback, and summarize the overall feedback during the meeting. 

The focus of the meetings is on the overall feedback and your questions as well as on giving you input for the further steps in the process. 

Material:

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