TBS's 1ST DBA CONFERENCE ON APPLIED RESEARCH IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT

YANCY:
2025-06-12 15:10:29
From your title, you seem to imply that BS are adapting to AI-induced job-market changes, and you Will conduct a descriptive analysis of how they do so. However, I don’t think that BS’ capacity to adapt is sufficiently well documented to allow you to build a study upon this basis. Also, descriptive analysis falls short from being considered research, it is simply search. Your research question is somewhat better, but is not in coherence with your title. You have three factors of analysis in your RQ: Business Schools’ adaptability, AI technology, and job market change. You need o better understand how you will be approaching these three factors and how they relate to each other in your research. Your approach will be determined by the theoretical perspective that you adopt for your study. You should be clear on this from the start. Make sure that you are able to reference from academic publications that statements that you make in support of your introduction and problem statement. These (Intro & PS) should not be two different aspects but should be one and the same. Make sure that you emphasize the new incipient change that warrants the need for your new study (AI-induce disruption of managerial job demand specifications). If you are not centring your research on the changing functional tasks of the manager, then I do not think that you should be centring on business school any more than any other HEI. You may find some interesting (non-academic) literature to support your problem statement in the publications by the EU Commission and the OECD within the HEInnovate series, or from the OECD’s EECOLE study group. You can also maybe find some clues as to how to build your argument by consulting one of my resent papers: Vaillant, Y., & Lafuente, E. (2025). Higher education institutions as co-innovation partners: compensating, complementing, and facilitating firms’ co-innovation to their optimum possibility frontier. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 1-27. Before you go too far with the design of your research, you probably want to dedicate much more time to ironing out the incoherencies of your topic and research question. Having a solid RQ is essential for the success of the remainder of your research. I hope that this helps!