Business and management research
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Business and management research is a systematic inquiry that helps to solve business problems and contributes to management knowledge. It Is an applied research.
Four factors (Easterby-Smith, 2008) combine to make business and management a distinctive focus for research :
- Transdiscipline approach
- Information access is difficult since managers see information as competitive advantage on the market
- Managers are educated and want some information produced by the classical research method
- Finding must resolve practical management problems
Managers often need information of high quality to help them to make the right decision.
Research process
[edit]- Define and clarifying a research topic
- Literature review on this subject
- Research Philosophies
- Formulate research design
- Ethics and access to information
- Defining a sample
- Using Secondary data
- Collecting primary data through observations, questionnaires and interview
- Analysing data
- Draw conclusions from data analysis
- Basic research
- Applied Research
Magazines & Unions
[edit]- Journal of Management Studies
- Global business research association at http://grbn.org/about/our-members/
See also
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Saunders, M.N.K., Lewis, P., Thornhill, A. (2012) Research Methods for Business Students (6th edition), Harlow, England: Pearson Education, Inc. ISBN 0-273-75075-5
- Ghauri, P., & Grønhaug, K. (2002), Research Methods in Business Studies : A Practical Guide (2nd edition), London: FT Prentice Hall Europe. ISBN 0-273-65110-2
- Easterby-Smith, M., Thorpe, R., Jackson, P.R. (2008) Management Research (3rd edition). London: Sage. [Chapter 1 explains what is management research.]
- Casse, C., & Lee, B. (eds) (2011) Challenges and Controversies in Management Research. New York, NY: Routledge.