Twists and turns.

It's really great to be in contact with the original writer(s) of the journal articles we are reading for our thesis. To tap their minds and get their thoughts on questions that we encounter along the way. Talk about the power of social capital!

Pirjo Ståhle has been a great source of help and inspiration. Her emails to us have helped clarify certain questions we had regarding methodology details, as well as give us some food for thought in the areas that deviate from her article, and the implications. A key factor is in the data - we are using IC ranked data rather than absolute values, and that results in an analysis that provides information to competitiveness and not just performance. Something that Alliz and I are in the midst of fully comprehending, but it's safe to say that we are almost there in getting an answer for ourselves.

Well, we've submitted the thesis draft on Tue for the mid-term seminars next week, and after that draft was submitted, our methodology changed slightly to reflect the above (though the main idea and framework still remains). That's the thesis journey I supposed - always dynamic, never static or linear or predictable.

Much like IC, don't you think?