Challenges and Controversies in Management Research

Herausgeber: Lee, Bill; Cassell, Catherine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Challenges and Controversies in Management Research explores the history and cultural context, current issues and controversies and potential development of research in the field of management. The collection of essays is written by scholars of international standing, and the chapters address the development of management research in one or another continent, the need for global collaboration, the current state of management research and the development of the business school setting in which that research takes place. Factors affecting management research are explored in detail, giving consideration to the relationship between teaching, ethical conduct, publication, quality audits, collegiality and research. Contributions in the book also explore the development and usefulness of theories in management research and consider the relevance of management research and its applicability for management practice, policy-makers and the voluntary sector. A final section of contributions explores the future challenges for management research including the realization of reflexivity, the enduring gender bias of the management field, the future of theory, the patterns of development of new areas of management research and the need to manage large databases.

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Management research has expanded considerably over recent decades. The impetus for such growth comes from a wide range of forces both inside and outside of the academic community stimulate and regulate its development, while the audience for which management research might be considered to be useful and the extent of that usefulness are highly contested. This book seeks to explore the forces that drive the development of management research, shape its current state and influence its future potential.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780415653756
• ISBN-10: 0415653754
• Artikelnr.: 36622267

Autorenporträt

Catherine Cassell is Professor of Organisational Psychology and Head of the People, Management and Organisations Division at Manchester Business School. She has published widely in the area of research methodology within the management and organizational field, including editing four books on qualitative research methods with Gillian Symon. Bill Lee is a senior lecturer in Accounting and Financial Management at the University of Sheffield Management School where he is also Director of the Doctoral Programme. He has published widely and his recent publications include articles in Accounting Forum, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Work, Employment and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Key Debates, Challenges and Controversies in Management
Research. Catherine Cassell and Bill Lee Section I: Positioning Management
Research 2. Positioning Current UK Management Research. Richard Thorpe and
Paul Ellwood 3. Business and Management Research in the UK from 1900 to
2009 and Beyond. Huw Morris 4. Management Research: A View From the Baltic.
Asta Pundzienë 5. Comparative Research Epistemology and Methodology: Past,
Present and Promising. Ralph Stablein and Joy Panoho 6. Global Research:
Transcending Boundaries When Learning to Collaborate and Learning from
Collaboration. Elena Antonacopolou Section II: The Institutional Context 7.
Linking Management Research and Management Education: Syntheses and
Challenges. Steven Armstrong and Cynthia Fukami 8. Managerialism and
Management Research: Would Melville Dalton Get a Job Today? Emma Bell 9.
Publishing Management Research. Rolf van Dick 10. Research Audits and Their
Financial Consequences. Michael Rowlinson, John Hassard and Simon Mohun
11. (AC)Counting Research: The Value of a Holistic Understanding. Chris
Humphrey and Kari Lukka Section III: Theoretical Issues 12. Current
Theoretical Debates in Management Research: Epistemological Analysis in
Strategic Management. Vadake Narayanan and Lee Zane 13. When Science and
Philosophy Meet: One Explication of the Relationship between Evidence and
Theory in Management Research. Mark Learmonth 14. The Potential of Radical
Research: Marxism, Labour Process Theory and Critical Management Studies.
John Hassard, and Michael Rowlinson Section IV: Impact, Relevance and
Practice 15. The Management Researcher as Practitioner - Issues From the
Interface. Mark Saunders 16. Seeking Relevance in Management Research.
Robin Wensley 17. Using Management Research to Influence Policymakers.
David Heald 18. Working with the Voluntary Sector. Jenny Harrow and Karl
Wilding 19. Advancing Practice-Relevant Scholarship. Elena Antonacopoulou
Section V: Challenges for the Future 20. Handling Large Datasets. Wissam
Abdallah and Marc Goergen 21. Challenging the Gendered Nature of Management
Research. Adelina Broadbridge and Sandra Fielden 22. Small Business and
Entrepreneurship (SBE): An Analysis of Publications and Implications for
the Development of the Field. Mirela Xheneti and Robert Blackburn 23.
Theorising after the Postmodern. David Boje 24. Why Complicate A Done Deal?
Bringing Reflexivity into Management Research . Ann Cunliffe