...Haien Ding; Bård Kuvaas Purpose In this paper, the authors aim to present a novel methodological tool – necessary condition analysis (NCA) to aid managerial psychology researchers in properly testing necessity statements. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ NCA to analyze whether...

... of methodological individualism. The inadequacy of existing literature and research directions is reviewed first. In conclusion, it is suggested that the traditional research paradigm, which relies on the methodological individualism, employed in decades of management and psychological research should be balanced...

...Peter Collett This paper is concerned with methodology in cross‐cultural studies of management. It raises issues about sampling, and then moves on to deal with two problems that threaten to undermine the value of cross‐cultural research. One is the popularity of models which reduce culture...

... rights to data sharing and authorship; and dividing responsibility for data analysis and writing. Special attention is given to lessons learned from managing the project. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Data collection Methodology Organizations Project management Recruitment Research...

... suggests a better acknowledgement of intellectual distance might foster AIRP effectiveness. Assumes that cognitive systems are assessable only indirectly through scholars’ intellectual artefacts, thus introducing a methodology in order to study them. Adopts scholars’ citations as a proxy of their cognitive...

..., there are a number of issues associated with these studies that rarely occur in other research efforts. The purpose of this manuscript is to articulate a number of these issues which can be categorized into two main groups, research methodology and publishing. Research methodology issues include the comparability...

...: An Introduction[ 1 ]. From his review of study methodologies articulated in the discipline, Hollis outlines two major polarizations. One is the opposition between explanation and understanding, and the second is the tension between holism and individualism. The over‐lapping of these two polarizations results...

... was conducted. Howard et al. refer to this latter measure as a “then” or“retrospective” measure[ 2 ]. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Assessment Methodology R&D Training Training is an important and costly event in the array of programmes included in a company′s human resource department...

... they are harassed or made to feel unwelcome. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Brewing industry Consumer attitudes Methodology Women This article reports on a methodological pilot study, a preliminary to a full‐blown study on women and public houses. A minor unfairness in the lives of women in Britain...

...), but use of the Concept model (containing 30 scales) cannot be recommended. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Methodology Psychology Personality tests Students VOLUME 6 NUMBER 1 1991 THE OPQ AND THE BIG FIVE N.A. Stanton, G. Mathews, N.C. Graham and C. Brimelow Saville and Holdsworth[l] claim several...

...,we need methodologies for making culture visible. This article offers both – initially describing what is becoming a major conceptual framework for culture work, and then outlining a workshop methodology for making culture visible. An extended case illustrates both the framework and one form...

... results suggesting the methodology′s usefulness in analysing an organisation′s culture. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Methodology Managers Corporate culture Psychology PROJECTIVE DRAWINGS AND METAPHOR: ANALYSIS OF ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE 13 N on-traditional methodologies can provide useful...