Any research study needs a solid design before data collection or analysis can begin. This design ensures that any experimental evidence obtained by a researcher serves its purpose in making the researcher's argument more robust. Just as an architect prepares a blueprint before he approves a construction project, a researcher needs to prepare a plan their own before they start their research.
The Palgrave Handbook of Research Design in Business and Management uses a new state-of-the-art research design typology model to guide researchers in creating the blueprints for their experiments. By focusing on theory and cutting-edge empirical best-practices, this handbook utilizes visual techniques to appease all learning styles.
Author(s): Kenneth D. Strang
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: xxxvi+566
Tags: Менеджмент;Управление проектами;
Preliminary Material
i. Foreword: Vision and Reality; Joseph F. Hair, Jr
ii. Preface: What's Unique for Practitioners; Kenneth D. Strang
Research Design Guidelines
1. Why Practitioner-Scholars Need a Research Design Typology; Kenneth D. Strang
2. Articulating a Research Design Ideology; Kenneth D. Strang
3. Developing a Goal-Driven Research Strategy; Kenneth D. Strang
4. Matching Research Method with Ideology and Strategy; Kenneth D. Strang
5. Selecting Research Techniques for a Method and Strategy; Kenneth D. Strang
6. Design Issues in Cross-Cultural Research: Suggestions for Researchers; Linda Brennan, Lukus Parker, Dang Nguyen, Torgeir Aleti
7. Establishing Rationale and Significance of Research; Judith Hahn
8. Organizing and Conducting Scholarly Literature Reviews; Linnaya Graf
9. Interpreting Findings and Discussing Implications for all Ideologies; Mary Ann Rafoth, George Semich, Richard Fuller
Positivist Applications
10. Implications of Experimental Versus Quasi-Experimental Designs; Jeremy W. Grabbe
11. Structural Equation Modeling: Principles, Processes, and Practices; Sewon Kim, Edward Sturman, Eun Sook Kim
12. Correlation to Logistic Regression Illustrated with a Victimization-Sexual Orientation Study; Creaig A. Dunton, Mark Beaulieu
13. Survey Method versus Longitudinal Surveys and Observation for Data Collection; John F. Gaski
14. Cross-Sectional Survey and Correspondence Analysis of Financial Manager Behavior; Kenneth D. Strang
15. Control Variables: Problematic Issues and Best Practices; Leon Schjoedt, Krittaya Sangboon
16. Monte-Carlo Simulation Using Excel: Case Study in Financial Forecasting; Seifedine Kadry
Pragmativist Applications
17. Critical Analysis using Four Case Studies Across Industries; Linnaya Graf
18. Integrating Multiple Case Studies with a Merger and Acquisition Example; Lars Schweizer
19. Iterative-Pragmatic Case Study Method and Comparisons with other Case Study Method Ideologies; Harm-Jan Steenhuis
20. Action Research Applied with Two Single Case Studies; Angeline Lim, Dae Seok-Chai
21. Transportation Queue Action Research at an Australian Titanium Dioxide Mining Refinery; Kenneth D. Strang
22. Participant Observation as Ethnography or Ethnography as Participant Observation in Organizational Research; Peter Sandiford
Constructivist Applications
23. Constructivist Grounded Theory Applied to a Culture Study; Narasimha R.Vajjhala
24. Phenomenology Variations from Traditional Approaches to Eidetic and Hermeneutic Applications; Jillian McCarthy
25. Hermeneutic and Eidetic Phenomenology Applied to a Clinical Healthcare Study; Jillian McCarthy
26. Structure of a Dissertation for a Participatory Phenomenology Design; Judith Hahn
27. Emancipatory Phenomenology Applied to a Child Sex Offender Study; Rodney Alexander
Final Generalizations and Descriptive Characteristics
28. Gaps to Address in Future Research Design Practices; Kenneth D. Strang, Linda Brennan, Narasimha R.Vajjhala, Judith Hahn
29. Contributor Biographies
