《管理研究方法论试卷.docVIP

湖南大学研究生 课程考试命题专用纸 考试科目： 高级管理研究方法论课程考试 专业年级：2011级 考试形式： 开 考试时间： ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 一.从给定的11篇英文文献中选择一篇认真阅读，并从论文选题、研究设计等方面加以评述；要求用英文撰写，3000单词以上（A4纸）。 时间：2012年2月17日上午提交 姓名：曾峻 学号：导师：伍中信 研究方向：工商管理 On Successful Research------A Review of “Informed Trading and the Market Reaction to Accounting Restatements” In this paper I review the “Informed Trading and the Market Reaction to Accounting Restatements”, its authors are Brad A. Badertscher, S. Paul Hribar and Nicole Thorne Jenkins, published at the Accounting Review on May 2011. The objective of my review is to investigate how to seeking a successful accounting research. But what research is successful research? I think，firstly，the successful research must be a specification research. So my review comes from five aspects: how to find a researchable question; how to convert the question to research hypothesis; how to define variables and build model; how to select samples; and how to test hypothesis and interpret the results. 1 How to find a researchable question All doctoral students confront the question “How do I find a researchable question?” I believe reading literatures and deepen research is a useful knack. A doctoral students should read a certain number of literatures firstly, just as Newton saying:“standing on the shoulders of giants.”However, the former researches may not always perfect and there is room to improvement. Changing the background of the research, for example, whether the result of research in USA is as same as in China? Or we find an important problem that had been ignored by all other researchers. If there is no research before, it’s a good researchable question. For example, there is considerable research on the stock market reaction to accounting restatements. Most of these literatures examined the correlation between accounting restatement features and the magnitude of the stock price reaction. Palmrose et al. (2004) a