Some information to check for your proposal ideas in synopsis form

 Some information to check for your proposal ideas in your synopsis form (based on the agile literature review approach)

Checklist items: 9 items in total:

1. Is the organization unit in focus clear: an industry, an organization, a department, a store?

2. Are the roles and role relationship clear: who are the gatekeeper and the major stakeholders? what is the relationship of the researcher with the gatekeeper and the organization unit in focus?

3a. What are the management concerns, notably the main management concerns involved? How are these management concerns related? Do these management concerns cover (i) environmental drivers, (ii) organizational capabilities, (iii) outcomes and (iv) solutions?

3b: Have you actually conducted some exploratory interview with the gatekeeper and a few related stakeholders to learn and identify the management concerns?

3c. Are you certain that the gatekeeper has given you the "informed consent" to conduct the research project in the organization unit in focus?

4. What are the main research objectives? And are they explicitly related to the management concerns identified?

5. What are the main research methods to use? Are there two research methods that involve primary data gathering? Are the research methods explicitly related to specific research objectives?

6a. Are there a few specific management theories to be used to inform specific research objectives?

6b. Have you actually conducted the preliminary literature review to gather the few management theories to be used?

7. Is there a preliminary reference list that includes about 5 academic references?

8. Have you checked your proposal title such that it captures the key ideas of your main research objectives?

9 Have you checked your research objectives to ensure that they are clearly expressed and largely in line with the MBA education perspective [note: review again the syllabus of the University MBA programme].