...Chun‐Yu Chen; Yen‐Chun Jim Wu; Wen‐Hsiung Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the co‐production of knowledge and dialogic relationships via the collaboration between business practitioners and academic researchers. Design/methodology/approach The motivations, expectations...

... review. Findings The paper finds that while such heterogeneity can be the source of a nuanced and at times contractor research field, it is also the source of richness and diversity that has contributed to making the emerging field so dynamic. Practical implications The field of entrepreneurship...

...Pierre Kletz Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the connection between research in social responsibility and management education studied here in the light of the Frankfurt School's approach in general, and of Horkheimer and Adorno's works in particular. Design/methodology/approach...

...John Peters; Rebecca Marsh Purpose This paper aims to question the dominance of citation metrics in the evaluation of the impact of research and prompt debate on how to evaluate impact in different contexts. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes the form of a viewpoint and review of how...

... of this research are published via a machine bureaucracy that reinforces the hegemony of science. However, some academics have expressed concern that there is little uptake in commerce of “new” management ideas, and that practising managers have little or no interest in academic research. Based on 20 years...

...Erwin Rausch; Charles M. Carson; James E. King, Jr Purpose Has the objective of examining why the focus given to leadership should be severely curtailed in research and teaching, and replaced by concepts that are better defined, understood and whose positive contributions are clearly...

...Jane Hemsley‐Brown Purpose There has been much interest in evidence‐informed decision making in education – identifying effective ways of increasing the use of research evidence to provide a basis for management decision making, in both the private and public sectors. However, in education...

... as important distinguishing characteristics among the three samples of articles. A closer examination of the research on theory development from the 1989 AMR issue to the present reveals that while theorists addressed the issue of methodology in terms of the influence of theory, methodology...

... and interpreting their management decision making. This conceptual framework may also assist the chaos, complexity and non‐linear movements in management research as well as practitioners who want an easy‐to‐understand template against which to evaluate their planning, thinking and managerial behaviour...

...Gilles Arnaud Looks at the changes in management science methodology brought about by other fields of knowledge and how this has influenced the views of researchers. Draws the main lessons to be learned from this and thus paves the way for direct observation. Develops a set of prerequisites...

...Aodheen O’Donnell; Audrey Gilmore; Darryl Cummins; David Carson The network construct is in common usage in entrepreneurship research. However while the increasing use of the construct has furthered our understanding of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, its popularity has sometimes led...

...Miia Martinsuo Doctoral thesis research projects are often limited in their resources and time. Complex research topics and qualitative research designs often, however, call for a large scope. This article explores ways in which fairly large scope qualitative research designs can be made manageable...

...John Peters; Keith Howard Management is not a science. There are too many variables for it to be anything other than the exercise of contextual judgement in situations which are understood as well as possible by the protagonists. But the scholarly management community, including researchers...

...Tauno Kekäle One of the main criteria of any PhD thesis is that it must provide new knowledge – either new results in support of a theory, or point to a new theory. New theories, typically, are by their nature “possibly generalizable” – a starting point of research, rather than definite proof...

...Caroline Stenbacka This article consists of two parts, starting with a discussion about generally accepted quality concepts in research, criticising them from the qualitative perspective. The article concludes by suggesting alternative concepts to be used for securing quality when pursuing...

...Petra C. de Weerd‐Nederhof Discusses methodological aspects of case study research and qualitative data collection and analysis. Discusses the choice of a research strategy and data collection and analysis methods according to theory as well as the arguments which lead to qualitative case research...

...Inge Kerssens‐van Drongelen Many methodology sources suggest that a researcher should in advance frame the research project and make a choice among these options and should subsequently stick to his or her frame and choice. In this article a different, more natural, research trajectory design...

...Maria Österåker Recognises that often researchers really need interviewees to become informants rather than respondents, to tell stories rather than answer structured questions. Presents a technique to ensure that, when conducting research via face‐to‐face interviews, a true picture emerges. It may...

...Enrico Baraldi; Roberta Bocconcelli The point of departure for this article is a newly established international research project focusing on industrial networks in the European furniture industry. The article offers an account of a theoretical journey starting from a qualitative analytical frame...

...) uses the term “project” in reference to project level. Halinen (1994) describes a project as an assignment. © MCB UP Limited 2001 High technology Industrial marketing Research Telecommunications industry Leminen (1999) offers an overview of models and frameworks of relationship...