Exploring research methodology and research design : doing research across the business disciplines

edited by Peter John Sandiford (Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour) and Sabine Schührer (Research Fellow, University of Adelaide Business School, University of Adelaide, Australia)

"This book introduces research methodology to business scholars. It draws on the experiences of academics at different stages in their careers, from early career researchers to seasoned professors. These serve as examples of actual practice both applying relevant methodological theory and exploring its implications for research across the business disciplines. The book's contributors share alternative perspectives and sometimes controversial ideas that call for debate in the theory and philosophy of business research. They focus on the connection between research design and philosophical concepts such as ontology, epistemology and axiology. Ultimately, they emphasise that all researchers must take responsibility for their work and the challenging decisions they face despite being inevitably influenced by political, disciplinary and organisational constraints. This book will be particularly beneficial to Honours, Masters by research and Doctoral students from a variety of business disciplines, such as accounting, finance, international business, management, marketing and organisational studies. It provides a starting point for learning about the challenges and joys of social research. It also offers experienced researchers, educators and supervisors a reminder and refresh about methodological issues, revisiting and introducing alternative scholarly perspectives"--

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Year of publication:	2025
Other Persons:	Sandiford, Peter (ed.)
Institutions:	Edward Elgar Publishing (publisher)
Publisher:	Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
Subject:	Business Research \| Philosophy Of Research \| Research Methodology \| Research Methods \| Research Paradigms \| Interdisciplinary Research \| Research Design \| Wissenschaftliche Methode \| Scientific method \| Interdisziplinäre Forschung \| Interdisciplinary research \| Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung \| Business research \| Wirtschaftsforschung \| Economic research \| Marktforschung \| Market research \| Forschung \| Research

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (218 pages)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatzsammlung
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Part a. Introducing and theorising research methodology -- 1. Introduction to exploring research methodology and research design / Peter John Sandiford and Sabine Schührer -- 2. A negotiated/personal perspective and overview of research philosophy / Peter John Sandiford and Sabine Schührer -- 3. Business research in practice / Sabine Schührer and Peter John Sandiford -- 4. Philosophical concept creep or conceptual fragmentation in methodology / Peter John Sandiford -- Part b. Research design and planning -- 5. The confirmation bias / Dirk Boehe -- 6. Social pressures to conform to a given set of research methods / Don J. Webber and Steven Pattinson -- 7. Researching gossip in organisations through organisational ethnography / Ziyun Ziyun -- 8. The sample size debate: A perspective from a phenomenological doctoral journey / Marilena Antoniadou -- 9. The authentic and the published researcher: Reflecting on tensions between epistemology and publishing conventions / Sarah-Jane Lennie -- 10. History, conceptual thinking and systems thinking: Does conducting research in history really teach you how to think? / Sam Wells PART C The practice of research: doing research -- 11. Putting research into practice - creating an interview / Sandy MacDonald -- 12. Doing process research on temporal sensemaking in changing organisation / Patrick Dawson -- 13. Approaches emerging from the questions of practice: Autoethnographic fictionalization of the leadership experience / Nicole Cheesman-Dutton -- 14. Doing qualitative, retrospective longitudinal research with audiovisual data / Stefan Gröschl and Guillermo Wilches -- 15. Making reflexivity explicit in qualitative research / Ankit Agarwal -- 16. Using thematic template analysis in qualitative innovation research / Steven Pattinson -- 17. Applying the comparative method to accounting for the public sector / Jens Heiling -- 18. Conclusion: A final note from the editors / Peter John Sandiford and Sabine Schührer.
ISBN:	978-1-80088-020-7 ; 978-1-80088-019-1
Other identifiers:	10.4337/9781800880207 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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