The Palgrave Handbook of Research Design in Business and Management

ISBN-13: 9781349479061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 601 str.

Kenneth Strang; K. Strang

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Angeline Lim, Organisation Solutions, Singapore Creaig Dunton, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, USA Dae Seok Chai, Texas A&M University, USA Dang Nguyen, RMIT University Vietnam, Vietnam Edward Sturman, State University of New York Plattsburgh, USA Eun Sook Kim, University of South Florida, USA George Samich, Robert Morris University, USA Harm-Jan Steenhuis, Eastern Washington University, USA Jeremy Grabbe, State University of New York Plattsburgh, USA Jillian McCarthy, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom John F. Gaski, University of Notre Dame, USA Jude, State Social Service Department, USA Kenneth David Strang, State University of New York, Plattsburgh at Queensbury, USA Krittaya Sangboon, Mahasarakham University, Thailand Lars Schweizer, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Leon Schjoedt, Indiana University South Bend, USA Linda Brennan, RMIT, Australia Linnaya Graf, Liberty University Online, USA Lukas Parker, RMIT University Vietnam, Vietnam Mark Beaulieu, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, USA Mary Ann Rafoth, Robert Morris University, USA Narasimha Rao Vajjhala, University of New York Tirana, Albania Peter John Sandiford, University of Adelaide Business School, Australia Richard Fuller, Robert Morris University, USA Rodney Alexander, Department of Defense, USA Seifedine Kadry, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait Sewon Kim, State University of New York Empire State, USA Torgeir Aleti, Victoria University, Australia