Qualitative Research in Education: A User's Guide - Book Information

Qualitative Research in Education: A User's Guide
Marilyn Lichtman
SAGE Publications, 20-Jan-2012 - Education - 368 pages


Qualitative Research in Education: A User’s Guide, Third Edition continues to bring together the essential elements of qualitative research, including traditions and influences in the field and practical, step-by-step coverage of each stage of the research process. Synthesizing the best thinking on conducting qualitative research in education, Marilyn Lichtman uses a conversational writing style that draws readers into the excitement of the research process.


http://books.google.co.in/books?id=p7l1dIBhcOAC


p. 168 has content on coding, categories and concepts

Steps Details
Step 1 Initial coding. Going from the responses to some central idea of the responses.
Step 2 Revising initial coding.
Step 3 Developing an initial list of categories or central ideas.
Step 4 Modifying your initial list based on additional rereading.
Step 5 Revisiting your categories and subcategories.
Step 6 Moving from categories into concepts (themes).

Phenomenology: Use in Management and Business Research

Basic Essay: Phenomenology: An Introduction

Article with focus on Phenomenology in Management and Business Research

Ehrich, Lisa (2005) "Revisiting phenomenology: its potential for management
research."

In Proceedings Challenges or organisations in global markets, British
Academy of Management Conference, pages pp. 1-13, Said Business School, Oxford
University.

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/2893/1/2893.pdf 

Sanders, P. (1982). Phenomenology: A new way of viewing organizational research.
The Academy of Management Review, 7, 353-360.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/257327?seq=3

The Case for Qualitative Research
The Academy of Management Review,  Vol. 5, No. 4, Oct., 1980
http://www.jstor.org/stable/257453?seq=8

Research Studies Using Phenomenology in Management Area

Crosetto, G.J. (2004). The experience of team emotion: A phenomenological study,
Doctor of Education dissertation (The George Washington University, 2004).
Dissertations Abstracts International, 65/03.

Ehrich, L.C. (1997). Principals and professional development: a phenomenological
study. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Queensland University of Technology,
Australia.

Gibson, S.K. & Hanes, L.A. (2003). The contribution of phenomenology to HRD
research. Human Resource Development Review, 2, 181-205.

Moreno, V. Jr (2001). The rupture and restructuring of professional self-identity: A
Phenomenological study of BPR experiences (Doctoral dissertation, University of
Michigan, 2001). Dissertations Abstracts International, 62/06.


The Meaning of Social Reality: Positivism vs. Phenomenology in Social Sciences
A Master thesis examining use of positivism and phenomenology in social sciences
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1301&context=opendissertations
(There are more dissertations on phenomenology in the above website)


Title: Phenomenology as a method for exploring management practice
 Author: Paschal Anosike; Lisa Catherine Ehrich; Pervaiz Ahmed
Journal: Int. J. of Management Practice, 2012 Vol.5, No.3, pp.205 - 224
 Abstract: Phenomenology is a term that has been described as a philosophy, a research paradigm, a methodology and equated with qualitative research. In this paper first we clarify phenomenology by tracing its movement both as a philosophy and as a research method. Next we make a case for the use of phenomenology in empirical investigations of management phenomena. The paper discusses a selection of central concepts pertaining to phenomenology as a scientific research method, which include description, phenomenological reduction and free imaginative variation. In particular, the paper elucidates the efficacy of Giorgi's descriptive phenomenological research praxis as a qualitative research method and how its utility can be applied in creating a deeper and richer understanding of management practice.

Husserl's Phenomenological Method in Management
Robert Shaw
http://academia.edu/1144051/Husserls_Phenomenological_Method_in_Management


Management and Transcendental Phenomenology: Strange Bedfellows?
By Patrick Bradbery.
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp.221-230. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 602.639KB).


Doing Research Projects in Marketing, Management and Consumer Research
Christopher E. Hackley
This book mainly focuses on interpretive or qualitative research approaches for academic research
Routledge, 2003 - Business & Economics - 210 pages
Google Book Link with preview facility
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=q2JVrcKdBqIC

7th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies: Ecrm 2008
Academic Conferences Limited, 2008 - Business - 314 pages
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=3WJ6dTIr8iEC

  OK - http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao/phenomenology-use-in-management-and/2utb2lsm2k7a/ 3122

Management Thesis Using Phenomenology or Qualitative Research Methods

Developing an EDC performance evaluation toolkit for affiliated and non-affiliated hoteliers
2008
https://repository.cardiffmet.ac.uk/dspace/handle/10369/843


A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF MARKETING STRATEGIES AND
PRICTICES: THE CASES IN CHINA'S TOWNSHIP AND VILLAGE ENTERPRISES
2001
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58345.pdf

Project Portfolio Management - Theory

Project Portfolio Management: Tools and Techniques
Parviz F. Rad, Ginger Levin
www.iil.com/publishing, 01-Jan-2006 - Business & Economics - 144 pages
Does your organization want to achieve success in prioritizing projects systematically, deliberately, and logically? Project Portfolio Management Tools and Techniques is written to demonstrate how to elevate your organization's project management thinking to the level beyond managing individual projects in a standalone fashion. This book is for those executives and other project professional who strive to have a formalized system of authorizing the right projects and abandoning the wrong projects, who desire to spend resources in the most efficient manner, and who want to have an actionable strategic plan for improving organizational project management sophistication. Project Portfolio Management Tools and Techniques deals with the full spectrum of project portfolio management (PPM) functions, from selecting projects through formalized portfolio management processes to facilitating the successful execution of projects through creating a formalized, project-friendly environment. This book will aid you in the implement of a PPM system, assist in gaining the necessary commitment from executive management, and provide guidelines for the modification of operational practices. Get ahead of the game by seeing a comprehensive project portfolio model that can help you establish yours successfully!

A literature review is included in the book
Google Book Link with Preview facility
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=PUavbSMdP7QC

Case Study Research - Theses, Dissertations and Papers

THE INTEGRATION OF PRODUCT INNOVATION AND STRATEGY PRACTICES IN FIVE FINNISH INDUSTRIES
Tommi Lehtonen
Helsinki University of Technology
BIT Research Centre
Innovation Management Institute
FINLAND
2005
Multiple case studies were used in this dissertation. It is a theory building research by a masters students in IE&M course.
www.imi.tkk.fi/publications/download/230/

Case Theory in Business and Management: Reinventing Case Study Research

Evert Gummesson

SAGE, 25-Jan-2017 - Business & Economics - 368 pages

'This meticulous book submits research and the research process to deep scrutiny. It debunks the unhelpful dichotomy between quantitative and qualitative research and highlights the great value of multi-method and interactive research, approaches that have greatly deepened our thinking.'

– Professor Adrian Payne, University of New South Wales, Australia / Professor Pennie Frow, University of Sydney

Setting out to dispel the argument that case study research lacks the science, theory and therefore validity of other forms of research, Evert Gummesson combines many decades of experience as both a renowned scholar and a reflective practitioner to effectively bridge the divide between case theory and how it is applied in practice.

Bringing the fundamental strengths of cases to the fore, Gummesson introduces the 'Case Theory' concept as an expanded version of case study research which includes both methodology and the types of results that emerge by:

Guiding the reader in the theoretical and philosophical underpinning Demonstrating how to translate theory to pertinent research practice that address the real and consequential issues in business and management today.

This book will appeal to students, academics and researchers who are interested in the science and philosophy behind case study research as well as the methodology and a thought-provoking read for anyone who wants to be challenged about their belief of case study theory.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=dFW5DgAAQBAJ

Modern and Post Modern Portfolio Theories

Post-modern portfolio theory supports diversification in an investment portfolio to measure investment's
performance
Rasiah, Devinaga (2012) : Post-modern portfolio theory supports
diversification in an investment portfolio to measure investment's performance, Journal of
Finance and Investment Analysis, ISSN 2241-0996, International Scientific Press, Vol. 1, Iss. 1,
pp. 69-91
http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/58003/1/688930476.pdf



Portfolio Selection in the Presence of Multiple Criteria
Ralph E. Steuer, Yue Qi, Markus Hirschberger
Published in: Handbook of Financial Engineering, Springer
Science, New York, (2008), pp. 3-24
http://www.terry.uga.edu/~rsteuer/PDF_Links/Handbook.pdf

Four Moment Portfolio Theory and Tests

Mean-Variance-Skewness-Kurtosis Portfolio
Optimization with Return and Liquidity
Xiaoxin W. Beardsley, Brian Field and Mingqing Xiao
Communications in Mathematical Finance, vol. 1, no.1, 2012, 13-49
ISSN: 2241 – 1968 (print), 2241 – 195X (online)
Scienpress Ltd, 2012
http://www.scienpress.com/Upload/CMF/Vol%201_1_2.pdf


PORTFOLIO SELECTION WITH HIGHER MOMENTS: A POLYNOMIAL GOAL
PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO ISE–30 INDEX
Gülder KEMALBAY,  C. Murat ÖZKUT and Ceki FRANKO
Ekonometri ve İstatistik Sayı:13 (12. Uluslararası Ekonometri, Yöneylem
Araştırması, İstatistik Sempozyumu Özel Sayısı) 2011 41–61
(Search Google for online document)