ISBR Business School conducted a Faculty Development Workshop on “Research Problem Formulation” facilitated by Dr. Arkalgud Ramaprasad, Director Ramaiah Public Policy Centre.
Dr. Ramaprasad is Professor Emeritus of Information and Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He has a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India; B.E. (Electrical), from the University of Mysore, Karnataka, India, His current research is focused on (a) ontologies to conceptualize a problem domain systematically and systemically, (b) ontological meta-analysis of research, policies, and practices in the domain and (c) ontological roadmaps for research, policies, and practices in the domain.
The one-day workshop on “Research Problem Formulation” was facilitated by Dr. Arkalgud Ramaprasad, at ISBR, Bangalore on 4th January 2020. The resource person dealt with the research problem formulation, how to conduct ontological research, and gave examples of frameworks that go into ontological research.
A total of 24 participants both faculty and research scholars from Amity Business School, IFIM, Christ University, WE School, Acharya Institute of Management, and faculty members of ISBR took part in the workshop. The FDW was praised by all the attendees and feedback was provided by all the participants indicating further workshops for a longer duration to delve more into ontological research.