... 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Case study Case study methodology Research design Qualitative research As a field of research, human resource development (HRD) is making steady progress towards becoming an established discipline characterized by sustained...

...Thomas G. Reio, Jr Purpose Nonexperimental research, defined as any kind of quantitative or qualitative research that is not an experiment, is the predominate kind of research design used in the social sciences. How to unambiguously and correctly present the results of nonexperimental research...

... of mediation explaining the causal sequence between the independent and dependent variables needs to be substantiated with careful attention to research designs (Bono and McNamara, 2011 , p. 659). The choice of research design is key because the data collection strategy for the different variables being...

...Kim Nimon; Daniel H. Robinson Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to introduce the special issue, “The Quest for Scientific Discipline in HRD Research: Designs that Support Causal Inference”. Design/methodology/approach This special issue presents seven papers that consider human resource...

...Helen McGrath; Thomas O'Toole Purpose The main aim of this paper is to develop guidelines on the critical issues to consider in research design in an action research (AR) environment for SME network capability development. Design/methodology/approach The issues in research design for AR...