Design science offers a powerful yet underutilized approach for generating practically relevant and rigorous knowledge in business research. Although design science has strong disciplinary roots and has received renewed attention across fields such as information systems, strategy, business...

"This thoroughly revised second edition provides an updated guide to reflexivity and reflexive practice, explaining its relevance to research in management, organisation studies and the social sciences. This new edition incorporates crucial analysis, case studies and Paul Hibbert's personal...

Common challenges faced by lecturers teaching this course include helping students learn to apply the theory to practice as they proceed with research, the goal of this blended approach is to synthesize different teaching and learning approaches into an integrated mix that lecturers can tailor...

This study reviews metaverse literature related to the business discipline. Our first search yielded 323 papers, further filtered based on predefined standards. Accordingly, since our research focuses on the metaverse of business, we limited the Scopus search results by choosing only two...

"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...

"Tools from macroeconomics and finance to incorporate the central role that data plays in the economy. The most valuable firms in the global economy are valued largely for their data. Amazon, Apple, Google, and others have proven the competitive advantage of a good data set. And yet despite the...

This chapter takes the use and limits of models a step further than Chapter 2. Drawing from two well-known models of research, it considers how the different elements of methodology can be considered together to make sense of research practice and the factors that influence it. Such models can...

This chapter looks at how to successfully manage the research portion of a business faculty’s academic career from an administrator’s perspective. While faculty decisions are best made at the department or discipline level, key members of the administration are still an important part of the...

"Management Research: Applying the Principles of Business Research Methods supports new researchers on every step of the research journey, from defining a project to communicating its findings, as well as balancing the technical aspects of research with the management of the project itself....

This ground-breaking Research Agenda provides unique insight into the evolution and development of service marketing. Expert contributors present an in-depth overview of the current state of the field, and critically analyse the diverse range of future directions available to researchers.

"The fields of mathematical statistics, statistical graphics, computer science and operations research have created the rich set of methods now called Analytics. Often analytics is characterized along three poles: descriptive analytics (what do data tell us), predictive analytics (what can be...

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:...

Problem solving skills are increasingly important to be able to tackle the complex problems encountered in the business world. Nowadays is increasingly important to achieve sustainable development, focusing not only on economic profit but also on creating social value. It is widely agreed that...

There have been significant advances in entrepreneurship education pedagogy over the last two decades. However, a gap remains with many questions about exactly what we should be teaching in the classroom and how we should be teaching it. Stakeholders of all types - students, parents, employers,...

"Essentials of Business Research Methods provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to research methods and analytical techniques for business students. The authors offer a straightforward, hands-on approach to the vital managerial process of gathering and using data to make relevant...

"A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism, brought forth what became a dominant...

Klappentext: Betriebe sind das Erfahrungsobjekt der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung. So eindeutig und geradezu trivial diese Aussage klingt, so diffus erscheinen die Antworten auf die Frage, was denn nun eigentlich einen "Betrieb" von einem "Nicht-Betrieb" unterscheidet. Die Autoren...

Chapter 1: Introduction,- Chapter 2: A roadmap to business research -- Chapter 3: The effect of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards on foreign portfolio investment in Africa -- Chapter 4: Determining the impact of different forms of stationarity on financial time series...