How to find topics

Finding interesting questions to answer with your research while getting published can be very hard as a junior researcher. The following papers help with finding interesting questions, making significant contributions and avoiding common pitfalls.

Finding a topic:

• That’s Interesting: Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology
• Editor’s Comments:  Avoiding Type III Errors:  Formulating IS Research Problems that Matter
• What Makes Management Research Interesting, And Why Does It Matter?
• Moving Forward by Looking Back: Reclaiming Unconventional Research Contexts and Samples in Organizational Scholarship
• Type II Reviewing Errors and the Search for Exciting Papers
• From the Editors: Publishing in AMJ — Part 1: Topic Choice
• Editor’s Comments: Why Top Journals Accept Your Paper
• Moving the Needle: Making a Contribution When the Easy Questions Have Been Answered
• Generating Research Questions Through Problematization
• How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time
• A Framework for Conceptual Contributions in Marketing
• A Structured Approach to Presenting Phd Theses: Notes for Candidates
• Beyond rigor and relevance: Producing consumable research about information systems