Research Methodology Course at NITIE - 2014 - Course Plan and Page

Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor,  Harvard Business Review, September 2003 

 "Why Hard Nosed Executives Should Care about Management Theory."

Converting Light (energy) into mass (matter) - Experiment
May 2014
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-creating-matter-from-light-collider-20140519-story.html
http://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html
http://www.universetoday.com/112044/physicists-pave-the-way-to-turn-light-into-matter/
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/18/matter-light-photons-electrons-positrons

Text Book - Doing Research in Business and Management - Dan Remenyi et al.

Contents


Foreword

About the Authors

1. Business and Management Research in Perspective

2. Philosophical Background to Research

3. Research Strategies and Tactics

4. The Research Programme and Process

5. The Positivist Approach to Empirical Research

6. Phenomenology: The Non-Positivist Approach

7. The Research Process

8. Collecting Empirical Data

9. The Questionnaire or Measuring Instrument

10. The Case Study

11. The Sample

12. Statistical Analysis

13. Ethical Considerations

14. Writing up the Research

15. Evaluation of Masters and Doctoral Degrees

Appendixes

A. Note on Academic Degrees

B. Measuring Instruments

C. Further Information on Statistical Analysis

D. Useful Web Site Addresses

E. Software for Qualitative Evidence Analysis

F. A Glossary of Terms

Theory Building - Course Page

Grounded Theory - A Methodology for Generating Theory

Glaser and Strauss - Grounded Theory - Chapter 2 - Generating Theory - Quotations and Summary

Theory Building Course Page

http://badm.au.dk/uddannelse/badm-phd-courses/badm-phd-courses-2013/theroleoftheoryinbusinessresearch/



Suggested Reading:

Andersen, P.H.; Kragh, H. (2010) Sense and Sensibility: Two approaches for using existing theory in theory-building qualitative research, Industrial Marketing Management, 39, 49-55.

Anderson, Paul F. (1983) Marketing, Scientific Progress, and Scientific Method, Journal of Marketing, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 18-31

Argyris, Chris (1991) Teaching Smart People How to Learn, Harvard Business Review, 99-109, May-June.

Astley, W.G. and Van de Ven, A.H. (1983) Central Perspectives and Debates in Organization Theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 28, June, pp. 245-273.

Bacharach, S. (1989) Organizational theories: Some criteria for evaluation, AMR 14: 496-515.

Booth, W.C., Colomb, G.C., Williams, J.M. (1995) 2nd edition, The Craft of Research. Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press

Colquitt, Jason A. & Zapata-Phelan, Cindy P. (2007) Trends in Theory Building and Theory Testing: A Five-Decade Study of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, 50: 1281-1303

Corley Kevin G. & Dennis A. G. (2011) Building Theory About Theory Building: What Constitutes a Theoretical Contribution? Academy of Management Review, 36: 12-32

Davis, M. (1971) That’s interesting! Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1: 309-344.

Eisenhardt, K. (1989) Building theories from case study research, Academy of Management Review, 14(4): 532-550.

Ghoshal, S. (2005) Bad management theories are destroying good management practices, AMLE, 4(1): 75-91.

Grunert, K.G., Shepherd, R., Traill, W.B. & Wold, B. (forthcoming) Food choice, energy balance and its determinants: Views of human behaviour in economics and Psychology, Trends in Food Science & Technology

Huber, G.P. (2010) “Organizations: Theory, Design, Future.” APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Hunt, Shelby D. & Morgan, R.M. (1996) The Resource-Advantage Theory of Competition: Dynamics, Path Dependencies, and Evolutionary Dimensions, Journal of Marketing, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 107-114.

Langley, A. (1999) Strategies for theorizing from process data, Academy of Management Review, 24(4): 691-710.

Lewis, M & Grimes, A. (1999) Metatriangulation: Building theory from multiple paradigms, Academy of Management Review, 24: 672-690.

Locke, K.; Golden-Biddle, K. (1997) Constructing opportunities for contribution: structuring intertextual coherence and 'problematizing' in organizational studies, AMJ, 40(5), 1023-1062.

March (1991) “Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning”, Organization Science, Vol. 1, No. 1; pp. 71-87.

McGrath, J.E.; Brinberg D. (1983) External Validity and the Research Process: A Comment on the Calder/Lynch Dialogue, The Journal of Consumer Research, 10(1), 115-124.

Oswick, C., Fleming, P. & Hanlon, G. (2011) From borrowing to blending: Rethinking the processes of organizational theory building, Academy of Management Review, 36: 318-337.

Oxley, J. E., Rivkin, J. W., and Ryall, M. D. (2010). The strategy research initiative: Recognizing and encouraging high-quality research in strategy, Strategic Organization, 8(4): 377-386.

Rindova, V. (2008). Publishing theory when you are new to the game, Academy of Management Review, 33: 300-303.

Smith, K. & Hitt, M. (2005) Epilogue: Learning to develop theory from the masters, Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development, Oxford University Press, pp. 572-589.

Suddaby, R. (2006) What Grounded Theory Is Not, Academy of Management Journal, 49, 4, 633-642.

Sutton, Robert I. & Staw, B.M. (1995) What theory is not, Administrative Science Quarterly, 40: 371-385.

Weick, K.E. (1989) Theory construction as disciplined imagination, AMR, 14(4), 516–531.

Whetten, David A. (1989) What constitutes a theoretical contribution? Academy of Management Review, 14: 490-495.

Whetten, D., Felin, T. & King, B. (2009) The practice of theory borrowing in organizational studies: Current issues and future directions, Journal of Management, 35: 537-563.

Theory Development and Testing in Organization-Related Empirical Research

Spring 2007, Prof Mason A. Carpenter
http://cmsdev.aom.org/uploadedFiles/Publications/AMR/CarpenterUWisconsin.pdf

Theory Building - Resources

http://aom.org/Publications/AMR/Theory-Building-Resources.aspx




AMR Best Articles

Allan Afuah, and Christopher L. Tucci
Crowdsourcing As a Solution to Distant Search
AMR 2012 37:355-375; doi:10.5465/amr.2010.0146
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Sim B. Sitkin, Kelly E. See, C. Chet Miller, Michael W. Lawless, and Andrew M. Carton
The Paradox of Stretch Goals: Organizations in Pursuit of the Seemingly Impossible
AMR 2011 36:544-566;
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Charalampos Mainemelis
Stealing Fire: Creative Deviance in the Evolution of New Ideas
AMR 2010 35:558-578;
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Richard Makadok, and Russell Coff
Both Market and Hierarchy: An Incentive-System Theory of Hybrid Governance Forms
AMR 2009 34:297-319; doi:10.5465/AMR.2009.36982628
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Management Innovation
AMR 2008 33:825-845; doi:10.5465/AMR.2008.34421969
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Exploring Intuition and its Role in Managerial Decision Making
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Elizabeth George, Prithviraj Chattopadhyay, Sim B. Sitkin, and Jeff Barden
Cognitive Underpinnings of Institutional Persistence and Change: A Framing Perspective
AMR 2006 31:347-365; doi:10.5465/AMR.2006.20208685
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Fabrizio Ferraro, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Robert I. Sutton
Economics Language and Assumptions: How Theories can Become Self-Fulfilling
AMR 2005 30:8-24; doi:10.5465/AMR.2005.15281412
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Systems of Exchange
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http://amr.aom.org/cgi/collection/amr_article_winners_collect

Inventing a New Theory of Nature - Constraints

Inventing a new theory of nature requires, as Feynman [1] said, ‘imagination in a terrible strait–jacket’. Unlike the artist who need not obey constraints, as scientists we are not free to imagine whatever we want—the new theory must obey a ‘correspondence principle’. It must, obviously, give different predictions from those of the old theory for some phenomena, but at the same time it must agree with the old theory in all the places in which the old theory was already experimentally verified. For all those experiments the new theory must give numerical results that are very similar to those of the old theory; the only acceptable difference must be smaller than the precision of the measurements that seemed to confirm the old theory.

Insofar as the numerical predictions of a theory are concerned, the correspondence principle is fairly obvious and straightforward. However, theories are not only mathematical devices for making numerical predictions—they contain concepts that tell us a story of what the nature of physical reality is and, as Feynman also noted, even in situations when the numerical predictions of two theories are almost identical, the concepts they involve may be completely different. Indeed, it is a fundamental conceptual difference between, say, mass being an absolute constant or mass changing with the speed even when the speed is so low that the change of mass is negligible.

The Classical Limit of Quantum Optics: Not what it seems at first sight

2013

http://blogs.chapman.edu/press-room/files/2014/05/mirror-w-prize.pdf

Interesting Thoughts on Research

Similarly throughout all their political thinking. Proximate causes and proximate results are alone contemplated; and there is scarcely any consciousness that the original causes are often numerous and widely different from the apparent cause, and that beyond each immediate result there will be multitudinous remote results, most of them quite incalculable. - Herbert Spencer

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_1/May_1872/The_Study_of_Sociology_I

Max Planck Institute for The History of Science Projects

Histories of Scientific Observations
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature18

Historical Epistemology

Bibliography

http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature1

http://www.academia.edu/688993/Historical_Epistemology_or_History_of_Epistemology_The_Relation_between_Perception_and_Judgment_pre-print_version_