Management and business research /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Easterby-Smith, Mark
Other Authors: Thorpe, Richard, Jackson, Paul
Format: Printed Book
Published: London: Sage, 2015.
Edition:5th edition.
Subjects:
Research methodology > Management
Operations research.
Organizational behavior.
Management
Operationsanalys.
Organisationspsykologi.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 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
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 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.
  • Note continued: Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 5. Politics, access and ethics
  • Politics and power in research
  • Political influences on research
  • Politics of access
  • Ethics
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 7. Crafting qualitative data through observation and interaction
  • Visual data.
  • Note continued: Observational research
  • Interactive and participatory methods
  • General concerns related to the creation of qualitative data
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 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
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 9. Crafting quantitative data
  • Sources of quantitative data
  • Question design
  • Measurement models
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 10. Summarizing and making inferences from quantitative data
  • Summarizing and describing data
  • Going beyond a sample
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 11. Multivariate analysis
  • The domain of multivariate analysis
  • Multivariate analysis of causal models
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading
  • 12. Writing management and business research
  • The skills of writing
  • The content of reports and dissertations.
  • Note continued: Writing up the literature review
  • Outputs and evaluation
  • Plagiarism
  • Dissemination strategies
  • Conclusion
  • Further reading.

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