Dear Sumita,
If your goal is to get an in-depth understanding of why and how several firms adopted their strategies, then your plan to perform three case studies seems appropriate. Although, if you haven't already, you should review the literature to determine whether your study would constitute a significant contribution over and above what's already been done.
In addition, data from three organizations would not allow you to examine the effects of firm size and public/private orientation on strategies. For that, you'd need a much larger sample size to get sufficient variance in the firm characteristics and strategies and to sustain a statistical analysis.
I hope you find this helpful.
Best Regards,
Jodi
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Jodi S. Goodman
University of Connecticut
School of Business
Department of Management
2100 Hillside Road Unit 1041
Storrs, CT 06269-1041
Tel. (860) 486-0938
Fax. (860) 486-6415
Email. jodi.goodman@business.uconn.edu
On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:59 AM, sumita sindhi wrote:
Dear ONE -L members,
I am pursuing Ph.d level research on the environmental responsibilities in mining industry in India. I am conducting an in-depth case research as to understand the environmental strategies adopted by mining organizations. Questions as why a firm adopts a particular strategy? and how? Trying to understand the innovations associated with the adoption of a particular strategy.
Three cases will be researched to see the effect of size of the firm and public and private firm orientation in adoption of an environmental strategy. This research has sustainability implications to it.
I would like to know, whether the methodology adopted for the research is appropriate? Suggestions on this aspect are welcome.
Best Regards
Sumita
FPM Scholar
Xavier Institute of Management,
Bhubaneswar - 751015
Orissa
Ph. # +919437521291
e-mail: u507006@stu.ximb.ac.in
sumitasindhi@yahoo.co.in
From: "Bansal, Tima" <tbansal@IVEY.UWO.CA>
To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Sent: Thu, 3 February, 2011 8:56:54 PM
Subject: [ONE-L] What Managers Want Researched
If you're looking to start a new research project, I recommend you check out the newest report from the Network for Business Sustainability: Canadian Business Sustainability Priorities for 2011. These priorities are selected consensually each year by a diverse group of organizations leading in sustainability. The Network commissions the systematic review of the academic research for at least two of the priorities every year. You might recall a message I sent a few weeks ago about the systematic review on Embedding Sustainability in Corporate Culture, completed by Stephanie Bertels of Simon Fraser University, which was a 2010 priority.
We've commissioned two topics from the 2011 report to be systematically reviewed. Joseph Arvai, Piers Steel, and Victoria Campbell of the University of Calgary and Michigan State are investigating how individuals make sustainability-related decisions. And Graeme Auld, Alexandra Mallett, and Robert Slater of Carleton University are investigating which outcome-based government policies best address sustainability issues. We anticipate the results of these reports will be released towards the end of this calendar year.
Please do let us know if you are already researching in these areas or decide to pursue these topics, as we aim to translate high quality research for practice. The purpose of the Network is to bridge the communities of research and practice. By doing so, we hope to encourage practice-based research and research-based practice. Over 1000 managers and 600 researchers are involved in the Network, so if you haven't already joined, I hope you do so. **************************************************
Dr. Tima Bansal
Professor, Richard Ivey School of Business
Director, Ivey's Centre for Building Sustainable Value
Executive Director, Network for Business Sustainability
Room 2N34, Richard Ivey School of Business