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The Palgrave Handbook of Research Design in Business and Management uses a new state-of-the-art research design typology model to guide researchers in creating the blueprints for their experiments. By focusing on theory and cutting-edge empirical best-practices, this handbook utilizes visual techniques to appease all learning styles.

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Preliminary Material i. Foreword: Vision and Reality; Joseph F. Hair, Jr ii. Preface: What´s Unique for Practitioners; Kenneth D. Strang Research Design Guidelines 1. Why Practitioner-Scholars Need a Research Design Typology; Kenneth D. Strang 2. Articulating a Research Design Ideology; Kenneth D. Strang 3. Developing a Goal-Driven Research Strategy; Kenneth D. Strang 4. Matching Research Method with Ideology and Strategy; Kenneth D. Strang 5. Selecting Research Techniques for a Method and Strategy; Kenneth D. Strang 6. Design Issues in Cross-Cultural Research: Suggestions for Researchers; Linda Brennan, Lukus Parker, Dang Nguyen, Torgeir Aleti 7. Establishing Rationale and Significance of Research; Judith Hahn 8. Organizing and Conducting Scholarly Literature Reviews; Linnaya Graf 9. Interpreting Findings and Discussing Implications for all Ideologies; Mary Ann Rafoth, George Semich, Richard Fuller Positivist Applications 10. Implications of Experimental Versus Quasi-Experimental Designs; Jeremy W. Grabbe 11. Structural Equation Modeling: Principles, Processes, and Practices; Sewon Kim, Edward Sturman, Eun Sook Kim 12. Correlation to Logistic Regression Illustrated with a Victimization-Sexual Orientation Study; Creaig A. Dunton, Mark Beaulieu 13. Survey Method versus Longitudinal Surveys and Observation for Data Collection; John F. Gaski 14. Cross-Sectional Survey and Correspondence Analysis of Financial Manager Behavior; Kenneth D. Strang 15. Control Variables: Problematic Issues and Best Practices; Leon Schjoedt, Krittaya Sangboon 16. Monte-Carlo Simulation Using Excel: Case Study in Financial Forecasting; Seifedine Kadry Pragmativist Applications 17. Critical Analysis using Four Case Studies Across Industries; Linnaya Graf 18. Integrating Multiple Case Studies with a Merger and Acquisition Example; Lars Schweizer 19. Iterative-Pragmatic Case Study Method and Comparisons with other Case Study Method Ideologies; Harm-Jan Steenhuis 20. Action Research Applied with Two Single Case Studies; Angeline Lim, Dae Seok-Chai 21. Transportation Queue Action Research at an Australian Titanium Dioxide Mining Refinery; Kenneth D. Strang 22. Participant Observation as Ethnography or Ethnography as Participant Observation in Organizational Research; Peter Sandiford Constructivist Applications 23. Constructivist Grounded Theory Applied to a Culture Study; Narasimha R.Vajjhala 24. Phenomenology Variations from Traditional Approaches to Eidetic and Hermeneutic Applications; Jillian McCarthy 25. Hermeneutic and Eidetic Phenomenology Applied to a Clinical Healthcare Study; Jillian McCarthy 26. Structure of a Dissertation for a Participatory Phenomenology Design; Judith Hahn 27. Emancipatory Phenomenology Applied to a Child Sex Offender Study; Rodney Alexander Final Generalizations and Descriptive Characteristics 28. Gaps to Address in Future Research Design Practices; Kenneth D. Strang, Linda Brennan, Narasimha R.Vajjhala, Judith Hahn 29. Contributor Biographies

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