Continuing to develop the list of reading I will need for the thesis. I am using a systematic review process and the searches are taking ages. Informaworld in particular takes about a minute for each result to arrive… actually I am writing this as I wait! Hopefully this will give me the required depth of reading I assume I need.
I am also following several other avenues of enquiry. At the moment I am torn between whether they are distractions or whether they will actually add to the final paper. For example, one of the personal insights I have had includes the notion of significant events affecting MSE (Micro & Small Enterprise) owner/managers during childhood. For me, this meant exclusion from school, missed social contact with peers and, ultimately a reliance on self. I am sure I am not alone in this, but whether this is significant is the question.
A second line of enquiry involves the uses of outdoor settings in management education. If logological or higher/conceptual learning is more evident in MSE owners than in managers in large organisations, and (in the boolean sense) it is a desirable trait, can the events/situations be replicated artificially? Again, the primary question has to be whether this is significant in terms of just getting the work done…
Leave a Reply