doctoral studies: OS and the CEO

[Beverly McCarthy]

Harrison,

Your feedback makes very good sense.  You're right . . .  key decision
makers are not limited to CEOs.  Consideration of senior executives, GMs of
business units and/or Executive Directors of non-profits would certainly
broaden my scope of research participants.

On the flip side . . . it may be quite interesting to also include, as a
dimension of my research, a study of the behavioral characteristics of
senior executives who considered OS, but decided not to engage their
organizations or business units in OS.  Finding research participants in
this arena might be a bit more challenging.

Any recommendations or ideas as to who I might contact as potential willing
and helpful prospects (CEOs, Sr. Execs, GMs, Executive Directors, etc.) to
participate in my study?  I'm not limited to any geographic region.

I appreciate your good thoughts.  And . . .   I'll be delighted and quite
eager to share the results!   More to come as my research unfolds!!    This
is all very exciting!    Many thanks!

Bev Mc.




-----Original Message-----
From: Harrison Owen <owenhh at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Date: Friday, July 28, 2000 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: doctoral studies: OS and the CEO


>At 02:57 PM 7/27/00 -0600, you wrote:
>>I am a Ph.D. candidate, Organizational Behavior.  My doctoral research
>>shall focus on CEOs who engage their organizations in OS.
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>I think you might find it useful to broaden your studies to include "senior
>executives."  There are several reasons for this -- first it will give you
>a larger and possibly more easily accessible number of folks. Second --
>there are lots of VPs and Senior Managers who are essentially CEOS of their
>business units. Just a thought. Love to see the results.
>
>Harrison
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