Dear friend,

I exactly understand what you mean, since I have experienced this situation when I was studying in master. By the way, the best ways to pick up a novel subject are first, specify and limit your field of study. Those fields that you mentioned are so general. For instance, change management is a general and comprehensive field which has various dimensions. Second, after you specify your favorite field (one or two variables) you need to study deeply to understand the research gap among articles that are published recently.

See "Dissertation Topic Seminar" PowerPoint for "How (Not) to Choose a Dissertation Topic

Dear @Andreas Given your interest in business management and organizational behaviour during the era of Pandemic as almost every organisation has adopted to work from home, you can look for influence of certain job resources and demands during work from home on employees' work-life balance and other employee related outcomes viz. job satisfaction, job performance etc.

Below is a paper attached that could help you on this line. @Tariq Jamal would you please enlighten him further?

1. Interesting to you -- so interesting that you you are drawn to and explore thoughts and ... and nurture excitement.

2. Potential impact of implications -- if you are right. Example: This could change how many children survive and ...

3. You can not find any references on the topic, subject. Original ideas are in the library of the Mind. There are no original ideas in physical, electronic, virtual libraries .... Another person already had the idea, and that is why they are in those libraries of a lesser world.

All good thoughts.

J Groth

"Gestión corporativa internacional y teletrabajo!". En el momento actual la pandemia ha orientado al teletrabajo a nivel mundial, referente a las administraciones de grandes corporativas. Sus herramientas son internet, plataformas,....

Hi, it would be good if you hone down to a focal point for your dissertation. The subjects that you mentioned are too broad.

- Pick a particular Area of Interest

- Put a limit to the Scope of the Dissertation - what you will cover, and more importantly what you WILL NOT.

- Then decide on the Methodology you want to follow: only Secondary sources; blend of Depth interviews+Secondary data etc.

Hope it helps Andreas Papadopoulos

First, you have to narrow down your field of interest, afterwards to read a previous research in the field is vital. You have to know what was done and if there are any problems and research gaps.

Andreas,

Thinking and choosing about topics is a balancing act between relevance and rigor. You need to think about a topic that, on one hand, is of some importance (e.g. to businesses, their stakeholders, and society) and that you are interested in (that is important too!). On the other hand, you also need to think about the contribution potential your project has to research, in terms of how it may add to theory, to methods, or in terms of data and findings.

Good luck!

Refer other resesrcher work and focus on the gap which is currently not addressed by others and follow your interest as well your specialzation. In additions you can ask yourun university to give you thematic areas to be focused

You need to focus on one specific area of study. How to do that?, I would suggest you stick to an area which you like the most. Then see the extent of knowledge available in that area. It would be also useful to see existing research gaps/inconsistencies, where you can contribute in a significant manner. Always go for the latest sources. Good Luch..!

Actualmente, para solucionar la actividad de las empresas en el tiempo de la pandemia, ha habido nuevos métodos de trabajo teletrabajo, remoto, en casa, tradicional o presencial, en consecuencia, la problemática sería, resolver los problemas que se suscitan con el régimen laboral,

As far as you are interested in business area, as many have mentioned it , you can not deal with all aspects of managing/conducting a business.However, based on your aim, you can choose a doable topic and discuss it with you supervisor. I suggest you to choose among innovation or human resource management aspect.

Good luck.

Andy, it will be the best choice ever if you should pick a dissertation topic you are most interested and having more points to support your ideas. You stated that you are most interested in corporation management, international/globalisation corporate management. Pick any of which it will be easier to get more information and ideas to support your points.

You can get these information from Corporate Managers, friends, the media and other existing dissertation with the same topic.

Gather for yourself more information before you start!

An idea: you could study decision-making logics in internationalization (search e.g. for effectuation and causation and Sarasvathy) and how firms use combinations of the two logics in different markets, situations etc.

Hi Andreas Papadopoulos

I suggest reading through the following three journals of Ellis & Levy to get an understanding about how to find a Research problem.@@@

Ellis, T. J., & Levy, Y. (2008). Framework of problem-based research: A guide for novice researchers on the development of a research-worthy problem. Informing Science, 11, 17–33. https://doi.org/10.28945/3288

J. Ellis, T., & Levy, Y. (2012). Data Sources for Scholarly Research: Towards a Guide for Novice Researchers. Proceedings of the 2012 InSITE Conference, January, 405–416. https://doi.org/10.28945/1663

Levy, Y., & Ellis, T. J. (2006). A systems approach to conduct an effective literature review in support of information systems research. Informing Science, 9, 181–211. https://doi.org/10.28945/479

Choose an area of study that you already know well.

• Identify a problem that you would like to investigate.

• Identify key terms/concepts.

• Look for a small gap in the research you can fill.

• Check your topic is unique - make sure you are not repeating anyone else's research. You could:

- generate new data about a topic

- take a theory and apply it in a new way

- apply existing research to a different context, e.g. a new location, time period or age group.

• Make sure your topic is not too broad.

I believe that you should take into account a group of elements and analyse them comprehensively: the line of research in which you are working or in which you prefer; real problems identified in your environment; motivation for the topic you select; support you have in the topic in terms of tutoring; funding required to develop the research; limitations to develop the fieldwork in the context of COVID-19; regulations of the institution to which you will submit your research report; knowledge gaps detected in that line of research by leading researchers within the same, etc.

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Unearth and bridge the theoritical and emperical research gaps should be the aim of the research

You may decide to read a meta-analysis of studies in the area (if any). You can see the recent trends and future research areas. I believe it will give you some ideas on what novel things to contribute. If there is no meta-analysis, you can read the recent textbook or research articles on the area and see how you can extend the arguments in contexts that need critical attention.