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Information meeting
about independent work / master
thesis
Kenneth Fjell, Dean
Questions after the meeting:
Contact the Information
Centre or the Library
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• Practical matters
–Inger Marie Milde
• Advice from faculty about the writing
process
–Kenneth Fjell
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Deadlines
• March 15th /
October 15 th:
Application for supervisor
(All should apply)
http://www.nhh.no/en/student-pages/thesis/application-forsupervisor.aspx
• September 1st /
February 1st:
• December 20th/
June 20th:
Sign up for Exam and Thesis
xxxTHE
Deadline for submission
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Electronic publishing
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Your thesis can be made available for all through
electronic publishing
If you do not want to publish it you do not sign the
agreement when you submitt your thesis
Information Library – homepage:
http://www.nhh.no/en/library.aspx
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Submission of thesis
Three copies – to the
Information Centre
(hardcover or booklets)
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Electronic submission (by
midnight the same day) as
PDF file:
[email protected]
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Advice from faculty
Student Pages - Thesis: http://www.nhh.no/en/student-pages/thesis.aspx
• How to find a topic
• Write alone or together with one other student (if different main profiles,
then both profiles must be satisfied by the thesis. Advisor decides.)
• Useful aids in the writing process
• Sources and references
• Grading
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Online surveys
• NHH uses a survey tool named Qualtrics to do online surveys. NHH
students may use the tool for free (limited to 6 months)
• If individuals can be identified directly or indirectly, you must apply
to the NSD for permission to collect/store data:
http://www.nsd.uib.no/personvern/om/english.html
• Good tool if you need to use online surveys for collecting your data.
Interested - contact: [email protected]
• http://www.nhh.no/en/student-pages/thesis/useful-aids.aspx
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Working empirically (i.e. with data)
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Research question
Find exisiting data
Find literature
Make an outline
Collect your data
Analyze your data
Write main body
Write conclusion
Write introduction
Repeat until
satisfied
Data come in various forms
-Quantitative (numbers)
-Qualitative, ordered (big, bigger, biggest)
-Qualitative, unordered (red, blue, green)
-Primary (you gather them)
-Few sources in depth, e.g. interview/ casestudy/ observation
-Many sources in brief, e.g. survey
-Secondary (someone else gathered them)
• More details on next slide
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Literature review and theoretical work
 Literature review
 Should be a synthesis (not a mer recapitulation) or a meta-analysis
 Must contribute something (involve something new)
 Framework
 Mathematical modeling (e.g. agency theory, game theory)
Questions?
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