Collaborative Research Design : Working with Business for Meaningful Results

Part I: Introductory remarks -- 1. Doing quality collaborative research with business -- Part II: Research Models and Processes -- 2. A Framework for Undertaking Conceptual and Empirical Research -- 3. Theory building using abductive search strategies -- 4. Literature Reviews Unleashed: Unlocking three approaches for the Critical Realist -- Part III: Research Methods for Information Gathering and Generating -- 5. Unlocking the Impact of Paradigms in Personal Interviews -- 6. Workshops as a Research Method in Business Research -- 7. Tangible Business Research -- 8. Multi-Method Systematic Observation: Theory and Practice -- Part IV: Analysis and Presentation of Findings -- 9. Analysis of qualitative data: Using automated semantic analysis to explore and validate text -- 10. On Displaying Research Results -- 11. Cases studies: A matter of paradigmatic stance -- 12. Five research strategies for increasing rigour in Action Research -- Part V: Researching in the Present and Future -- 13. Vignettes in Collaborative Business Research -- 14. Improvising in Research: Drawing on Theatre Practices -- 15. Collaborating with Managers to Develop flight simulators to address complex problems using Agent Based Models -- Part VI: Overview and Conclusion -- 16. Bringing it all together and leaving it all up to you!.