An aspiring literary writer hits the writer's block and stares at the blank page in front of him. Nothing occurs to him/ her. Nothing can be done about it as s/he is engaged in a very difficult activity of imagining, thinking, articulating, debating over the correct way of expression etc. and all this within himself/ herself. Battling the inner demons so to say. It is actually like taking something out of yourself.
Research- based writing is comparatively easy. You can make steady progress every day. However, how much of it is your own contribution and how much is juggling, putting existing things together etc.?
Current trend in research is to forget about larger implications of the subject and concentrate only on methodology. The result is very narrow kind of work which may be technically rigorous but it says very little and it adds virtually nothing to what ordinary people know already. Technique over substance, quantitative over qualitative - that is the drift.
I feel out of sorts with the new breed of information saavy, technically well- equipped breed of young management researchers. Their research is empirically sound but it hardly tries to marry theory with empirical facts.
Research- based writing is comparatively easy. You can make steady progress every day. However, how much of it is your own contribution and how much is juggling, putting existing things together etc.?
Current trend in research is to forget about larger implications of the subject and concentrate only on methodology. The result is very narrow kind of work which may be technically rigorous but it says very little and it adds virtually nothing to what ordinary people know already. Technique over substance, quantitative over qualitative - that is the drift.
I feel out of sorts with the new breed of information saavy, technically well- equipped breed of young management researchers. Their research is empirically sound but it hardly tries to marry theory with empirical facts.
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