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“The issue of how to conduct high
quality academic research in business and management studies continues to
exercise the minds of many of us in this community. There seems to be little
convergence of views as to how research should be conducted, with new ideas
and new approaches being continually added.”
So wrote Professor Dan
Remenyi in the preface to the proceedings of the 3rd European
Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management studies, held
in April this year at Reading University. Regular readers will know that
this journal started as an offshoot of the conference in 2002, to provide a
means to promulgate current thinking and work in this diverse field.
This issue of the journal
contains 11 of the 41 papers presented at the 2004 conference These papers
were nominated for publication in the journal by delegates and session
chairs at the conference. In addition, a paper is included which formed the
basis for a panel discussion. We also publish the first submission to a new
book/conference review section, contributions for this area are invited at
any time.
The selected papers
demonstrate a wide variety of approaches to conducting and evaluating
research and present ideas on research paradigms, philosophical pluralism,
historiography, the Glaserian approach, Online focus groups and grounded
theory. The “soft” issues are also addressed with papers on how to choose a
research topic and how to help student’s assess the validity of their
research. We hope that the papers published in this issue will open
discussion and add to the body of knowledge, supporting further debate and
future work.
We welcome suggestions for
topical issues and encourage submissions of interesting empirical,
theoretical or critical work. We are also pleased to receive case studies,
reports on action research was well as reports on work in progress.
Submission guidelines, calls for papers and publication schedules can all be
found elsewhere on the website. Your comments are especially welcome.
Arthur Money
Editor
ArthurMoney@ejbrm.com
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