Course Description

Thesis Writing for Supply Chain Management prepares students in writing the proposal of their theses. First, students are introduced to the structure of thesis writing. Then, qualitative and qualitative methods common in Business Research are presented. Every lecture is supported by case studies in Supply Chain Management Students will practice quantitative methods with the open-source software JASP. The remaining time acts as workshop for proposal preparation. By the end of the course, students are expected to deliver a thesis proposal draft and defend it with a presentation.

Course Information

• MNSCM course (54TH)
• Instructors: Roger Lloret-Batlle, Sen Lin

Syllabus

• Thesis writing: introduction
• Plagiarising, paraphrasing
• Introduction to Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative methods: Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA)
• Quantitative methods: Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
• Quantitative methods: Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)
• Quantitative methods: Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA)
• Final test and presentations.

References

• Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel, Global Edition ISBN-13:9781292156347
• JASP Verification Project