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 competitive advantage on the market Managers are educated and want some information produced by the classical research method Finding must resolve practical management problems
Managers often need information of high quality to help them to make the right decision.
Research process
Define and clarifying a research topic
Literature review on this subject
Research Philosophies
Formulate research design
Ethics and access to information
Defining a sample
Using Secondary data
Collecting primary
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
Research
Market research
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.