Research design for business & management:
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| adam_text | Contents
List of figures and tables xii
About the author xiv
Preface xv
1 FUNDAMENTALS OF RESEARCH 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 The origins of research 2
1.2.1 Universities 2
1.2.2 Consulting and market research firms 3
1.2.3 Government institutions 4
1.2.4 Company in-house research teams 4
1.3 The dissemination of research 5
1.4 Basic terminologies 6
1.5 Types of research 7
1.5.1 Inductive vs deductive 7
1.5.2 Quantitative vs qualitative vs mixed 8
1.5.3 Conceptually driven vs issue-driven 9
1.6 Fundamental research expectations 10
1.6.1 Objectivity 11
1.6.2 Rigour 11
1.6.3 Replicability 12
1.6.4 Parsimony 12
1.6.5 Generalizability 13
1.7 Research ethics 13
1.7.1 Reporting of research findings and rectifying
error reporting 14
1.7.2 Referencing 15
1.7.3 Plagiarism 15
1.7.4 Authorship and ownership 15
1.7.5 Acknowledgements 16
1.7.6 Submission of manuscripts for publication 16
1.7.7 Conflict of interest 17
1.8 Consequences of breach of ethical research behaviour 18
1.8.1 Consequences of erroneous research findings 18
1.8.2 Consequences of inaccurate referencing 19
CONTENTS
1.8.3 Consequences of plagiarism 19
1.8.4 Consequences of a breached review process 19
1.9 Overview of the research process 20
2 MISPERCEPTIONS, CHALLENGES AND JUDGEMENT
CALLS IN RESEARCH 28
2.1 Introduction 28
2.2 Misperceptions of research 29
2.2.1 Research is only for people who want to become
academics and has little significance for practice 29
2.2.2 Projects related to practice do not need research rigour 30
2.2.3 Research is isolating and frustrating 30
2.2.4 Research is subjective 32
2.2.5 The more coverage the study, the better it should be 33
2.2.6 The research process cannot be linear and
prescriptive 34
2.3 Challenges in the research process 34
2.3.1 The choice of research areas and settings 34
2.3.2 Theory and hypotheses development 35
2.3.3 Highly uncertain research outcomes 42
2.3.4 Time constraints 42
2.4 Judgement calls 43
3 THE RESEARCH QUESTION 50
3.1 Introduction 50
3.2 Sources of research questions 50
3.2.1 Academic-oriented research questions 51
3.2.2 Practice-oriented research questions 51
3.3 Approaches to research problems 52
3.3.1 Positivist approach 52
3.3.2 Interpretivist approach 53
3.4 Starting points 53
3.4.1 Journal search 53
3.4.2 Systematic search for a research gap 55
3.5 Systematic search of the literature 56
3.5.1 Convergence search 58
3.5.2 Snowballing search 60
3.5.3 Divergence search 61
3.6 Sources of information 62
3.6.1 Article search databases 62
3.6.2 Working papers 63
3.6.3 Conference papers 64
3.6.4 Business magazine articles 65
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3.6.5 Reports and Web documents
3.7 What constitutes a good research question?
3.7.1 Influence on specific field and broader business and
management 68
3.7.2 Influence on management practice 69
3.7.3 Event-specific and time-sensitive influence 70
3.7.4 Generic vs context-specific influence 71
4 CONDUCTING A LITERATURE REVIEW 74
4.1 Introduction 74
4.2 What does a literature review include? 75
4.2.1 Steps and tools for literature review 75
4.2.2 What is to be reported in a literature review? 77
4.2.3 Using existing review articles 79
4.3 How best to utilize the source articles 80
4.3.1 Research issue and contributions 81
4.3.2 Research arguments 81
4.3.3 Data and sample 81
4.3.4 Research findings 82
4.4 Synthesizing the search results 82
4.4.1 Corroborating and not summarizing 82
4.4.2 Theoretical underpinnings 83
4.4.3 Empirical underpinnings 83
4.4.4 (In) adequacy of the literature review 84
4.4.5 Narrow the level of relevancy 85
4.4.6 Meta-analysis 86
4.5 Referencing 87
4.5.1 Harvard referencing style 87
4.5.2 APA referencing style 90
4.5.3 Vancouver referencing style 91
4.6 Some do s and don’ts of referencing 91
4.6.1 Do not follow top journals and top authors blindly 92
4.6.2 Adhere strictly to citation of a study especially
authorship order 92
4.6.3 Do not misrepresent the content of the references 93
4.6.4 Avoid second-hand citation 94
4.6.5 Do not cite out-of-date references other than classics 94
4.6.6 Do not try to shun away from
conflicting evidence 95
5 RESEARCH DESIGN 98
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Types of research design
VII
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5.3 Research design decisions 101
5.3.1 Research strategy 102
5.3.2 Access to entities of study 103
5.3.3 Variables and measurements 103
5.3.4 Current methodologies 104
5.3.5 Key directions for future research 105
5.4 Levels of analysis 106
5.5 Incorporating time in our research 107
5.5.1 X causes Y 109
5.5.2 X causes Y and the relationship is stable over time 109
5.5.3 X causes Y and Y changes over time 110
5.5.4 X causes Y, but over repeated exposure to X, Y changes 110
5.5.5 X causes Y and a change in X causes a change in Y 110
5.6 Context contingencies 111
5.7 Research designs: some illustrations 112
5.7.1 Illustration 1: Top management team and firm
performance 112
5.7.2 Illustration 2: Alliances and firm performance 115
6 DATA, SAMPLING AND MEASUREMENTS 121
6.1 Introduction 121
6.2 Primary and secondary data 122
6.3 Sampling 124
6.3.1 Sample size 127
6.3.2 Sampling errors 128
6.3.3 Probability sampling 128
6.3.4 Non-probability sampling 131
6.3.5 Sampling situations 132
6.4 Measurements 135
6.4.1 Scales 135
6.4.2 Ratios 138
6.4.3 Composite measures 139
6.4.4 Using established measurements 140
7 DATA COLLECTION METHODS 146
7.1 Introduction 146
7.2 Interviews 146
7.2.1 Face-to-face interviews 147
7.2.2 Telephone interviews 149
7.3 Focus groups 150
7.4 Participant observation 152
7.5 Case studies 153
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7.6 Survey designs 155
7.6.1 Designing the survey 156
7.6.2 Survey questions 159
7.6.3 Survey response rates 162
7.6.4 Respondent and non-respondent errors 163
7.7 Archival data 164
7.8 Multi-industry and multi-country data 165
8 DESCRIPTIVE AND EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS 171
8.1 Introduction 171
8.2 Missing data 172
8.2.1 Addressing missing data 172
8.2.2 Sources of data errors 174
8.3 Reliability and validity 175
8.3.1 Reliability 176
8.3.2 Validity 177
8.4 Factor analysis 178
8.4.1 Exploratory factor analysis 178
8.4.2 Confirmatory factor analysis 178
8.4.3 Effects of item wording and coding on factor analysis 179
8.4.4 Number of items in your scale 180
8.5 Descriptive analysis 181
8.5.1 Distribution 181
8.5.2 Measures of central tendency 182
8.5.3 Measures of variation 183
8.5.4 Univariate tests 185
8.6 Bivariate analysis 192
8.6.1 Comparing two means 192
8.6.2 Comparing two proportions 193
8.6.3 Chi-squared test of independence 193
8.6.4 One-way and two-way ANOVA 195
8.6.5 Non-parametric tests 196
8.7 Bivariate correlation 199
8.8 Significance testing 200
9 QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS 205
9.1 Introduction 205
9.2 When are qualitative research methods appropriate? 205
9.3 The key approaches to qualitative research 210
9.3.1 Ethnographic research 211
9.3.2 Grounded theory 212
9.3.3 Case study research 214
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9.4 Data recording and organization 217
9.4.1 Data recording and coding procedures 217
9.4.2 Organizing and storing data 217
9.5 Data analysis and interpretation 219
9.6 The validation process 221
9.7 Qualitative analysis software 223
10 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS 228
10.1 Introduction 228
10.2 Types of dataset 229
10.2.1 Different coding of data 229
10.2.2 Transformation of data 231
10.3 Different types of regression models 232
10.4 Multiple linear regression analysis 235
10.4.1 Assumptions 235
10.4.2 Regression outputs: an illustration 236
10.4.3 Incremental contribution of added variable 244
10.4.4 Interaction effects in multiple linear regression 247
10.4.5 Mediation effects in multiple linear regression 249
10.5 Regression models with categorical dependent variable 250
10.6 Regression models with nominal dependent variable 257
10.7 Quantitative analysis software 259
11 WRITING UP 265
11.1 Introduction 26 5
11.2 Typical sections of a research study 266
11.2.1 The summary or abstract 267
11.2.2 The introduction 267
11.2.3 Background and literature review 268
11.2.4 Development of theory, and propositions and
hypotheses development 269
11.2.5 The methodology 270
11.2.6 Results and discussion 271
11.2.7 The conclusion 272
11.3 Writing styles 274
11.3.1 Language 275
11.3.2 Structure and flow 277
11.3.3 Writing format 278
11.4 Writing up for journal submission 280
11.5 Other advice on writing up 280
11.5.1 Read and appreciate why good publications
almost always have good writing 280
11.5.2 Don’t just read, write something, and keep
rewriting later 281
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11.5.3 Keeping research notes 281
11.5.4 Maintaining a reference list 282
11.5.5 Always seeking to communicate your ideas 282
12 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT 286
12.1 Introduction 286
12.2 The primary research environment 286
12.2.1 Physical location and equipment 287
12.2.2 Research supervisor 288
12.2.3 Research collaborators 289
12.2.4 Peers 290
12.3 The secondary research environment 292
12.3.1 Seminars 292
12.3.2 Conferences 292
12.3.3 Research communities 293
12.3.4 Funding 294
12.3.5 Legal and moral obligations 295
12.3.6 Time 295
12.4 Navigating the research supervision process 296
12.5 Navigating the journal review process 298
12.6 Concluding remarks 301
12.6.1 Go to top conferences 301
12.6.2 Review papers 302
12.6.3 It’s OK to get confused 303
12.6.4 Methodology is just a tool; theoretical
development, rigour and relevance are the keys to
good research 303
Index 308
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