Sustainability and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Lessons from Mixed Methods Research
Herausgeber: Factor, Aharon; Ulhøi, John Parm

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Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates how the development of 'combining' research methodologies into a mixed approach provides a richer, more diverse and truer understanding of sustainable business and the role of SMEs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780367751418
• ISBN-10: 0367751410
• Artikelnr.: 65615327

Autorenporträt

Aharon Factor is an MBA specialist educator with Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia, and operates his start-up research and consulting company - Sustainable SME Consulting. John Parm Ulhøi is Professor of Organization and Management Theory at the School of Business and Social Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Part A: Sustainability, SMEs and mixed methods 1: Key roots and approaches
to sustainability Aharon Factor, John Parm Ulhøi and Norma Romm 2: Research
in small and medium-sized enterprises and sustainability Aharon Factor,
John Parm Ulhøi and Norma Romm 3: Mapping the existing methodological SME
and sustainability landscape Aharon Factor and John Parm Ulhøi Part B:
Mixed methods in sustainability SME research: A global outlook 4: Mixed
methods research and environmental management: a reflective perspective of
a research group and some lessons from experience José F. Molina-Azorin,
Maria D. Lopez-Gamero, Juan Jose Tari, Jorge Pereira-Moliner and Eva M.
Pertusa-Ortega 5: Qualitative to quantitative and back: Reflecting on mixed
methods approach for examining sustainability and small business Mark
Gagnon 6: Mixed-methods: A pragmatic approach to researching SMEs and
sustainability Alessandro Bressan 7: Reflecting on the use of mixed methods
in the subject of sustainable strategies in manufacturing SMEs Eustathios
Sainidis 8: A longitudinal mixed-method study of Australian SME
environmental behaviour Aharon Factor 9: Exploring differences in
perspectives regarding mixed methods and transdisciplinary research: A
dialogue Norma Romm and Ralph Hamann Part C: Added value, challeneges and
practical relevance if applying mixed methods in research on sustainability
in SME's 10: Extending the value-added of mixed methods in sustainability
research Elizabeth G. Creamer 11: Addressing the challenge of mixed methods
integration through joint displays and clear writing Timothy C. Guetterman
and Jennifer Moss Breen 12: Applied mixed methods and the added value
Steve Harris, Bradley Pettitt, Ruth Hillary, Aharon Factor and John Parm
Ulhøi 13: Lessons learned Aharon Factor and John Parm Ulhøi