These 120 articles have been carefully selected to capture the current methodological variations in business and management research and to highlight the important philosophical assumptions that underpin these variances.

Seminal articles from leading thinkers are drawn together under the umbrella of six key areas and provide a revealing road map through the field of business and management research.

Volume 1 considers different philosophical stances and their methodological implications, Volumes 2 to 5 look at the broad spectrum of research approaches; such as positivism, Neo-Empiricism, the combination of qualitative and quantative Methodologies and social constructionist approaches. Volume 6 explores the challenges associated with trying to evaluate the quality of business and management research.

VOLUME ONE: RECENT METHODOLOGICAL DEBATES AND DISPUTES IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Mapping the Terrain - P Johnson and M Clark
An Overview of Business and Management Research Methodologies
Intellectual, Ideological and Political Obstacles to the Advancement of Organizational Science - R Hogan and R Sinclair
The Scientific Status of Management Research as a Practically Oriented Social Science - R Whitely
Barriers to the Advancement of Organization Science - J Pfeffer
Paradigm Development as a Dependent Variable
Style as Theory - J Van Maanen
The Case for the Natural Science Model for Research in Organizational Behaviour and Organization Theory - O Behling
The Case for Qualitative Research - G Morgan and L Smircich
The Nature of a Paradigm - M Masterman
Multiple Paradigms and Organizational Analysis - J Hassard
A Case Study
In Defence of Paradigm Incommensurability - N Jackson and P Carter
Breaking the Paradigm Mentality - H Willmott
Multi-Paradigm Perspectives on Theory-Building - D A Gioia and E Pitre
Empirical Research in Accounting - R Laughlin
Alternative Approaches and a Case for ¿Middle-Range¿ Thinking
Changing Spaces - D Knights
The Disruptive Impact of a New Epistemological Location for the Study of Management
Re-Cognizing the Other - H Willmott
Reflections of a New Sensibility in Social and Organization Studies
Relativity without Relativism - C Hardy and S Clegg
Reflexivity in Post-Paradigm Organization Studies
Reflexivity in Management Research - P Johnson and J Duberley
A Critique of Postmodernism in Organization Studies - L Donaldson
Postmodernism and Management - Pros, Cons and the Alternative
VOLUME TWO: POSITIVSIM: DEDUCTIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
PART ONE: THE TRUE OR CLASSICAL EXPERIMENTAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Influence Tactics, Affect and Exchange Quality in Supervisor-Subordinate Interactions - S J Wayne and G R Ferris
A Laboratory Experiment and Field Study
The Hawthorne Effect - J G Adair
A Reconsideration of the Methodological Artifact
PART TWO: QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
The Effects of Job Enrichment on Employee Satisfaction, Motivation, Involvement and Performance - C Orpen
A Field Experiment
The Outcomes of Autonomous Workgroups - T D Wall et al
A Long-Term Field Experiment
PART THREE: DEDUCTIVE FORMS OF ACTION RESEARCH IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
Action Research and Minority Problems - K Lewin
Action Research - A Warmington
Its Methods and Its Implications
Action Research and Scientific Method - H Arguinis
Presumed Discrepancies and Actual Similarities
PART FOUR: KEY ISSUES IN MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS
Improving Construct Measurement in Management Research - C Schriesheim et al
Comments and a Quantitative Approach for Assessing the Theoretical Content Adequacy of Paper and Pencil-Type Survey Instruments
Attitude Measurement - A McKennell
Use of Co-Efficient Alpha with Cluster or Factor Analysis
A Primer on Internet Organizational Surveys - Z Simsek and J F Veiga
PART FIVE: TYPES OF SURVEY RESEARCH
Descriptive Surveys
Employee Surveys - J Hartley
Strategic Aid or Hand-Grenade for Organizational and Cultural Change?
Analytical Surveys
The Influence of Organization Structure on the Utility of an Entrepreneurial Top Management Style - J B Covin and D P Slevin
Relationships of Perceptions of Organizational Climate to Organizational Structure, Context and Hierarchical Position - R L Payne and R Mansfield
Development of the Job Diagnostic Survey - J R Hackman and G R Oldham
Structured Observation - G D Jenkins, D A Nader, EE E Lawler and C Cammann
Standardized Observations - G D Jenkins et al
An Approach to Measuring the Nature of Jobs
Structured Observations - M J Martinko and W L Gardner
An Approach to Measuring the Nature of Jobs
Longitudinal Surveys
Survivor Reactions to Organizational Downsizing - T D Allen et al
Does Time Ease the Pain?
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Antecedents of Organizational Commitment - T S Bateman and S Strasser
Content Analysis
Content Analysis in Leadership Research - G Insch, J Moore and L Murphy
Examples, Procedures and Suggestions for Future Research
Meta-Analysis
Meta-Analysis - R Rosenthal and M R DiMatteo
Recent Developments in Quantitative Methods for Literature Reviews
Research Methodology in Organizational Studies - P M Podsakoff and D R Dalton
VOLUME THREE: NEO-EMPRICISM: INDUCTIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
PART ONE: GENERAL ISSUES
The Logic of Naturalistic Inquiry - N K Denzin
The Ethnographic Paradigms - P R Sanday
The Social Anthropology of Management - S Linstead
What Is Wrong with Social Theory? - H Blumer
PART TWO: APPROACHES TO COLLECTING QUALITATIVE DATA
Roles in Sociological Fieldwork - R L Gold
The Professional Apprentice - J Van Maanen and D Kolb
Observations on Field Roles in Two Organizations
Coming to Terms with the Field - M Rosen
Understanding and Doing Organizational Ethnography
Structured Observation as a Method to Study Managerial Work - H Mintzberg
The Critical Incident Technique - J C Flanagan
Using Repertory Grids in Management Research - M Easterby-Smith, R Thorpe and D Holman
Doing Life Histories - A Faraday and K Plummer
Charisma and Rhetoric - D N Den Hartog and R M Verburg
Communicative Techniques of International Business Leaders
PART THREE: ANALYZING QUALITATIVE DATA
The Criminal Violation of Financial Trust - D Cressey
On the Analysis of Observational Data - M Bloor
A Discussion of the Worth and Uses of Inductive Techniques and Respondent Validation
Why Companies Go Green - P Bansal and K Roth
A Model of Ecological Responsiveness
Some Practical Aspects of Qualitative Data Analysis - B Turner
One Way of Organizing the Cognitive Processes Associated with Grounded Theory
Grounded Theory and Organizational Research - P Y Martin and B Turner
Rewriting the Discovery of Grounded Theory after 25 Years? - K Locke
Enhancing Adaptability - K Parry
Leadership Strategies to Accommodate Change in Local Government Settings
Automating the Ineffable - N G Fielding
Qualitative Software and the Meaning of Qualitative Research
VOLUME FOUR: COMBINING EMPRICIST METHODS: MULTI-METHOD RESEARCH AND CASE STUDIES
The Integration of Fieldwork and Survey Methods - S D Sieber
On the Reconciliation of Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses - M G Trend
A Case Study
Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods - T D Jick
Triangulation in Action
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies to Study Group Processes - S C Currall et al
Untangling the Relationship between Displayed Emotion and Organizational Sales - R I Sutton and A Rafaeli
The Case of Convenience Stores
Flexible Employment Contracts and Their Implications for Product and Process Innovation - J Storey et al
Moving toward Participation and Involvement - S Zamanou and S R Glaser
Commitment and Social Organization - R M Kanter
A Study of Utopian Communities
Revisiting the Quantitative-Qualitative Debate - J E M Sale, L H Lohfeld and K Brazil
Implications for Mixed Methods Research
Case and Situational Analysis - J C Mitchell
The Case Study Crisis - R Yin
Some Answers
Building Theories from Case Study Research - K M Eisenhardt
Case Studies as Natural Experiments - A S Lee
Case Study Research in Management Accounting and Control - D T Otley and A J Berry
Complexities and Controversies in Linking HRM with Organizational Outcomes - C Truss
Expressions of Methodological Pluralism - G McLennan
VOLUME FIVE: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
Grounded Theory - K Charmaz
Objectivist and Constructivist Methods
An Assessment of the Scientific Merits of Action Research - G I Susman and R D Evered
Critical Theory
Ethnography versus Critical Theory - L Putnam et al
Critical Theory and Organizational Analysis - J Forrester
Educating Accountants - M K Power
Towards a Critical Ethnography
The Contest over Meaning - A Prasad
Hermeneutics as an Interpretive Methodology for Understanding Texts
Integrating Action and Reflection through Co-Operative Inquiry - P Reason
Feminist Methodology
Towards a Methodology for Feminist Research - M Mies
On Feminist Methodology - M Hammersley
Diversity and Agreement in Feminist Methodology - A Williams
Critical Realism
Critical Realism as the Underpinning Philosophy for OR/MS and Systems - J Mingers
Critical Realist Ethnography - S Porter
The Case of Racism and Professionalism in a Medical Setting
Postmodernism
Deconstructing Organizations - M Kilduff
Voicing Seduction to Silence Leadership - M B Calas and L Smircich
From Postmodern Anthropology to Deconstructive Ethnography - S Linstead
Corporate Strategy, Organizations and Subjectivity - D Knights and G Morgan
A Critique
Strategy Retold - D Barry and M Elmes
Toward a Narrative View of Strategic Discourse
Power, Control and Computer-Based Performance Monitoring - K Ball and D C Wilson
Repertoires, Resistance and Subjectivities
The Turn to Action and the Linguistic Turn - L Treleaven
Towards an Integrated Methodology
VOLUME SIX: EVALUATING RESEARCH AND THE QUESTION OF CRITERIOLOGY
Criteria against Ourselves - A P Bochner
An Evaluation of the Validity of Correlation Research Conducted in Organizations - T R Mitchell
Research Methodology in Management - T A Scandura and E A Williams
Current Practices, Trends and Implications for Future Research
Construct Validity in Psychological Tests - L J Cronbach and P E Meehl
Construct Validity in Organizational Behaviour - D P Schwab
Factors Relevant to the Validity of Experiments in Social Settings - D T Campbell
The External Validity of Experiments - G H Bracht and G U Glass
Interviews Surveys and the Problem of Ecological Validity - A V Cicourel
Problems of Relability and Validity in Ethnographic Research - M Lecompte and J Goetz
Quality in Qualitative Research - C Seale
Competing Paradigms in Qualitative Research - E Guba and Y S Lincoln
Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research - J L Kinchloe and P L McLaren
The Validity of Idiographic Research Explanations - H Tsoukas
Postmodern Evaluation - or Not? - L Mabry
Farewell to Criteriology - T A Schwandt
Constructing Opportunities for Contribution - K Locke and K Golden-Biddle
Structuring Intertextual Coherence and ¿Problematizing¿ in Organization Studies
Peer Review and the Social Construction of Knowledge in the Management Discipline - A G Bedeian