Business and management research is a systematic inquiry that helps to solve business problems and contributes to management knowledge. It is an applied research.
Four factors (Easterby-Smith, 2008) combine to make business and management a distinctive focus for research:
- Transdiscipline approach
- Information access is difficult since managers see information as a competitive advantage in the market
- Managers are educated and want some information produced by the classical research method
- Findings must resolve practical management problems
Managers often need information of high quality to help them make the right decisions.
Research process
data through observations, questionnaires and interview
- Analysing data
- Draw conclusions from data analysis
- Basic research
- Applied Research
Magazines & Unions
- Journal of Management Studies
- Global business research association at http://grbn.org/about/our-members/
See also
Sources
- Saunders, M.N.K., Lewis, P., Thornhill, A. (2012) Research Methods for Business Students (6th edition), Harlow, England: Pearson Education, Inc.
- Ghauri, P., & Grønhaug, K. (2002), Research Methods in Business Studies : A Practical Guide (2nd edition), London: FT Prentice Hall Europe.
- Easterby-Smith, M., Thorpe, R., Jackson, P.R. (2008) Management Research (3rd edition). London: Sage. [Chapter 1 explains what is management research.]
- Casse, C., & Lee, B. (eds) (2011) Challenges and Controversies in Management Research. New York, NY: Routledge.