... Model confirmation Theory corroboration Causal inference Organizational research Social sciences Management research Over the past three decades, structural equation modeling (SEM) has become a central empirical framework in organizational and applied social science research. Its diffusion...

.... This is followed by a critical examination of the potential applications and benefits of the method to the field of business and management research. Originality/value The CAMTA method enables researchers to assimilate and synthesise metadata, titles and abstracts as a means of identifying grounds for future...

.... Subsequently, they question this view through a reflection that brings us closer to a more pragmatic and interpretive paradigm of management science to bridge the research–practice gap. Originality/value In recent studies, researchers agree that there is an important gap between management research...

... of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University and a columnist for Forbes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Peter Drucker Management research Ideas generation Management Performance For someone who over the course of eight decades taught at four major...

...Eric P. Jack; Amitabh S. Raturi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to leverage the lessons learned from three published studies on volume flexibility in the capital goods industry to demonstrate the effective use of methodological triangulation in operations management research. Design...

... issues and constraints relating to case study research, and will offer recommendations for the use of this method. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Case studies Management research Organizational culture Social theories Biographical Notes Eric Patton is Doctoral Student, Ph.D. Programme...

...David Douglas This article sets forth the argument that management research should take into account the complex processes of enterprise activity and the inherent contextual issues that effect managerial behaviour. Research accounts from other areas of social inquiry have conveyed the worthiness...

...Jonathan C. Morris Looks at the 2000 Employment Research Unit Annual Conference held at the University of Cardiff in Wales on 6/7 September 2000. Spotlights the 76 or so presentations within and shows that these are in many, differing, areas across management research from: retail finance...

... Health service Management research Managers An Analysis of Communication Barriers of Managers in Health Services Organisations by Steven Golen Introduction Effective manager-subordinate relations is an extremely important facet in health services organisations. In order to maintain an effective...

... Management education Management research Middle East Management Related Research in the Middle East by Ugur Yavas and Ghazi Habib Writings related to management in the Middle East region are largely scattered. They appear in a wide variety of sources ranging from recognised Western journals to local...

... of society as a whole is important to all. © MCB UP Limited 1984 Canada Management research The Max Bell Business-Government Studies Programme at York University by James Gilles, Director In some respects the tension between the public and private sectors in Canada has eased. At the federal...

... a productivity group was instituted to plan the means of managing RIF — fairness to employees being the most important consideration. Participative management appears to be the key to success. © MCB UP Limited 1984 Management research Redundancy Productivity Participative management Productivity...