Management and business research

Contents:

1.Getting started and writing the research proposal
The landscape of management and business research
Elements of a research proposal
Clear research questions and research objectives
Explanation of how the research relates to previous work in the field
Concise description of the research design and methods
The impact and engagement agenda
Conclusion
Further reading
2.Reviewing the literature
What is a literature review and what are its main purposes?
Preparing a literature review: finding and recording relevant literature
Finding relevant literature
Evaluating literature
Writing a literature review
3.The philosophy of management and business research
The philosophical debates
Ontology: from realism to nominalism
Epistemology: positivism vs social constructionism
Strengths and weaknesses of the main traditions
Paradigms and research approaches
Contents note continued: Conclusion
4.Designing management and business research
The essence of research design
Positivist research designs
Experimental methods
Survey research
Constructionist research designs
Case method and grounded theory
Mixed methods
Common design dilemmas
Contributing to theory
Contrasting views on validity and reliability
Research design template
5.Politics, access and ethics
Politics and power in research
Political influences on research
Politics of access
Ethics
6.Crafting qualitative data through language and text
Crafting qualitative data
Textual data
Qualitative interviews
Preparing for data collection
Conducting interviews
Interview-based mapping techniques
7.Crafting qualitative data through observation and interaction
Visual data
Contents note continued: Observational research
Interactive and participatory methods
General concerns related to the creation of qualitative data
8.Framing and interpreting qualitative data
Preparing and managing qualitative data
Framing and interpreting qualitative data: seven approaches
Computer-aided analysis
Quality in qualitative research
9.Crafting quantitative data
Sources of quantitative data
Question design
Measurement models
10.Summarizing and making inferences from quantitative data
Summarizing and describing data
Going beyond a sample
11.Multivariate analysis
The domain of multivariate analysis
Multivariate analysis of causal models
12.Writing management and business research
The skills of writing
The content of reports and dissertations
Contents note continued: Writing up the literature review
Outputs and evaluation
Plagiarism
Dissemination strategies
Further reading.