This unique and fascinating book is written for tertiary level students in the multicultural classroom, whether studying abroad or at home alongside international students. It relates a genuine understanding of the student perspective of learning in a multicultural classroom, highlighting how...

Purpose – This chapter examines the potential of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) for strategy research. Methodology/approach – We introduce the set-theoretic framework of QCA and provide an overview of recent methodological developments. Findings – We utilize a variety of examples...

Purpose – This chapter presents four different approaches to doing and writing qualitative research in strategy and management based on different epistemological foundations. It describes two well-established “templates” for doing such work, and introduces two more recent “turns” that...

The nature and usefulness of qualitative research for public relations and marketing communications -- Selecting a topic and relating to your supervisor -- Reviewing the literature & writing the research proposal -- Ethical issues and access -- Ensuring the quality of research -- Choosing...

Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to review and categorize how photographs have been used in management research and to provide strategic management researchers with suggestions about how to use photographs to enhance their qualitative research methodologies. Methodology/approach – We...

For classification problems with ordinal attributes very often the class attribute should increase with each or some of the explaining attributes. These are called classification problems with monotonicity constraints. Classical decision tree algorithms such as CART or C4.5 generally do not...

For classification problems with ordinal attributes very often the class attribute should increase with each or some of the explaining attributes. These are called classification problems with monotonicity constraints. Classical decision tree algorithms such as CART or C4.5 generally do not...

At present, there appears to be no qualitative dependent model that can simultaneously account for data sets in which the variable of interest is potentially ordered but also has strong heterogeneity of the observed outcomes. This heterogeneity of particular outcomes, inherently attracts...