Management information systems

Research Paper:
You are required to individually write up an original research paper in the area of Management Information Systems with focuses on electronic commerce, or any information systems related area. There are two ways that your research can be original: conduct survey or observe your work environment. The original research means that your work is not in any published domain, nor you should cut and paste and make your views. You may design a Management Information Systems for an organization, either at top level or at the functional levels. The following topics are recommended, but not limited to, for your research paper:
Overall organizational information systems for e-commerce
Information systems for a particular industry
Service
Manufacturing
Non-profit
Information subsystems for functional areas
Production and operations
Materials management
Inventory control
Just-in-time manufacturing
Quality control
Productivity control
Logistics, supply chain and marketing
Information systems for integrating all business functions
These are only the topics, and you may wish to discuss with me if you think there is (are) other topic(s) related to subjects of the course you would like to do research. Your selection of the topics should be based on your own preference, experience, and your knowledge in the area. Your paper should be practically applicable. Your research paper should include the following:
These are only the topics, and you may wish to discuss with me if you think there is(are) other subjects related to management information system you would like to do research. Your topic selection should base on your own preference, experience, and your knowledge in the area. Your research paper should follow the format below:
Introduction (identify problems and purpose)
Review of literature (this is based on others’ work published)
Assessment of need and problems
Data and information requirement
Methodology and analysis
Conclusion and recommendations
References, end notes, and appendix
Your research paper should be in digital format, with no more than 15 single spaced type written pages, including a cover page (with the title, your names, and all email addresses). Computer program, user’s manual, questionnaire, graphs, and data sheets (if you have) must be attached electronically in separate files to your research project. Do not use MS Word to create any graph since it may be distorted. If you do need graphs, insert jpg files into the text. The data input should be in excel file with the columns for the survey questions and the rows for each of the respondents (cases). The content of your paper must be in Microsoft Word format and plain text, with one inch for all margins, and 12 new time roman font, and page number in the bottom center using footer with 0.5 inch width. All the data sheets and graphs must be in Microsoft Excel format. No footnotes or endnotes are permitted. If you do feel that you need to use footnotes or endnotes, you must follow the following format:
i.e. Thomas Edison was considered one of the great scientists in the past one hundred years [1].
Then they can be put in the end of the paper as endnotes:
Smithsonian Museum achieves, Vol. 345, No. 678, 2000, pp. 333-334.
All the footnotes or endnotes should be put in the end of the paper under References, Endnotes, Footnotes, and Appendix. These guidelines will be strictly followed, or a 10% deduction will apply.
Keep in mind that your research must be original. An original research is not a case study, not the ones that can be found in any published domain, i.e. websites, books, periodicals, etc., not descriptions inserted your comments or your views or opinions. There are two ways for original research:
Focus on your work environment and through your own observations, so it is first hand;
Conduct a survey. Please see my published sample article.
Conducting original research is a great challenge and you can enhance your analytical skills, while a secondary research is simply a repetition of others’ work, like someone eats a regurgitated meal, you will not learn much by conducting a secondary research, or cut and paste other’s work.
However, no one’s research is built from nothing. All original researches are based on the human knowledge cumulated in the past thousands of years. You can cite or quote any in your review of literature part. Please see my sample article on Canvas.
Preference shall be given to those research projects based on their originality, creativeness, practicability, and applicability.
Review all research related files posted on Canvas. You will also be asked some questions from these files in the exams.
If your research project is not original, you will receive no more than 80% out of 100% for the project.