As many of you know, I am a professional writer, but my day job is college professor. I did luck out, and the company that I am working for is paying for my doctorate - well, the tuition at least, I still have to pay for all of the incidentals....... When I am done in 7-10 years from now, I will have a Doctorate of Business Administration, aka a DBA.
Here is the problem - I am three courses in and it is time to start narrowing down the old dissertation topic. What is a dissertation? It is a big work - a 100+ document where I research an original topic and present the findings. I get to do a literature review (find out what other people have said), research topic, and then research the problem and present solutions. My biggest issue is that Hospitality research is spread accross many different disciplines - there is information in health, business, sociology, psychology, and just about ever other discipline.
What don't I want to do? I don't want to do anything on leadership, prefer not to do anything dealing with psychology or motivation. The rest - I am open to looking it over.
Some notes: whatever I pick, I have to do field research on the topic. That means, the topic has to be measurable (means that I have to be able to count it, and compare it to something), relevent (meaning that once I do this, it has to be usable by most or all of you), and scientifically valid (I'll worry about that part).
Any thoughts? This is your chance to tell someone what to research - pick a topic that you would like to see some research and then I can look at it in terms of the three parts above......I would really appreciate some input into a viable topic.
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