Description

We venture into unknown territories. We team up with our friends Alex and Philipp from the German podcast “Desk Reject: der PhD Cast”, which comes out of the Vienna University of Economics and Business and is run by PhD students Sophie Quach, Dieter Gutschi, Philipp Benedikt Becker, and Alexander Staub. If you understand German – or aspire to learn it – you should follow their podcast. Together, we discuss what makes a great or a good PhD student, whether PhD students need to create a researcher identity for themselves, and how academics can deal with envy.

Episode Reading List

• Bolotnyy, V., Basilico, M., & Barreira, P. (2022). Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments. Journal of Economic Literature, forthcoming.
• Recker, J. (2013). Of Hygiene and Motivator Factors: Views from “Down Under. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 5(4), 287-288.
• Loos, P., Mertens, P., Eymann, T., Hirschheim, R., Schwenker, B., & Hess, T. (2013). Qualification Profile of University Professors in Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE). Business & Information Systems Engineering, 5(2), 107-114.
• Berthon, P., Pitt, L., Ewing, M., & Carr, C. L. (2002). Potential Research Space in MIS: A Framework for Envisioning and Evaluating Research Replication, Extension and Generation. Information Systems Research, 13(4), 416-427.
• Berlin, I. (1953). The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
• Galloway, S. (2017). The Four: the Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Random House.