Advances In Management Research

This book covers advancements across business domains in knowledge and information management. It presents research trends in the fields of management, innovation, and technology, and is composed of research papers that show applications of IT, analytics, and business operations in industry and in educational institutions. It offers a combination of scientific research methods and concepts, with contributions from globally renowned authors; presents various management domains from a number of countries for a global perspective; and provides a unique combination of topics and methods while giving insights on the management domain using a holistic approach. The book provides scholars with a platform to derive maximum utility in the area of management, research, and technology by subscribing to the idea of managing business through performance and management technology.

This volume of Advances in Management Accounting explores a variety of current issues through rigorous academic research. Topics include the link between CEO compensation and the 2008 financial crisis, the association between performance-based pay and employee honesty, and more.

Aims to present state-of-the-art studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to such areas as sales, marketing, and strategic decision making. The topics in this title include: sales and marketing, forecasting, new product forecasting, judgmentally based forecasting, the application of surveys to forecasting, and more.

The purpose of the present edited book ‘Advances in Management Research: Emerging Challenges and Trends’ is to provide a wide range of paradigmatic and theoretical substantive research articles in management research.

Challenges and Controversies in Management Research explores the history and cultural context, current issues and controversies and potential development of research in the field of management. The collection of essays is written by scholars of international standing, and the chapters address the development of management research in one or another continent, the need for global collaboration, the current state of management research and the development of the business school setting in which that research takes place. Factors affecting management research are explored in detail, giving consideration to the relationship between teaching, ethical conduct, publication, quality audits, collegiality and research. Contributions in the book also explore the development and usefulness of theories in management research and consider the relevance of management research and its applicability for management practice, policy-makers and the voluntary sector. A final section of contributions explores the future challenges for management research including the realization of reflexivity, the enduring gender bias of the management field, the future of theory, the patterns of development of new areas of management research and the need to manage large databases.

Using contemporary examples of business and management research, predominantly within the context of India, this book offers numerous tools and techniques which can be applied to a diverse range of research needs. Topics discussed include: research designs, sampling, interviews, focus groups, case study research and mixed method research.

Within the academic realm, doctoral research plays a vital role in the advancement of knowledge. In areas ranging from strategy and international business to marketing, finance and operations management, the contributions in this volume represent the very best in doctoral research in the field of management worldwide. This first book in the Advances in Doctoral Research in Management series includes both doctoral research papers and a section on doctoral research notes consisting of shorter versions of extended monographs. There is also a section on research methodology papers that builds awareness and provides applications of new methodological concepts, techniques and tools. Contents:Knowledge Transfer: A Review to Explore Conceptual Foundations and Research Agenda (S M Jasimuddin)Negotiating Incommensurability in Marketing Theory (M Tadajewski et al.)Explaining Ecological Product Purchase Using Consumers' Psychographic Characteristics (E Fraj et al.)Extensions of Logistic Growth Model for the Forecasting of Product Life Cycle Segments (M Sokele & V Hudek)Defensive Strategies and Consumers' Bounded Rationality: An Artificial Market Simulation (J A Mazanec et al.)A User Evaluation of Web Recommender Systems (U Bauernfeind)The Determinants of Relationship Marketing: An Application to Thermal Spas (J Antunes)Supermarket Site Assessment and the Importance of Spatial Analysis Data (A B Mendes et al.)A Framework for Corporate Crisis Management: Applications to SMEs in Australia (M Aba-Bulgu & S M N Islam)Option Games, Asymmetric Information and Merger Announcement Returns (H Pan & X Xia)Analysing Data Using GLM Models (G D Hutcheson)The Issue of Missing Values, Their Presence and Management: A Relevant Demonstration of Data Analysis in Marketing Using CaRBS (M J Beynon) Readership: Doctoral students, researchers, and academics in the field of management. Suitable as supplementary reading in doctoral programs. Keywords:Doctoral;Research;Management Methodology;Data;Analysis;Paradigm;Modeling;InternationalKey Features:A unique academic refereed outlet on doctoral research in the field of managementA key reference in the libraries of all doctoral programs

Volume 27 of Advances in Management Accounting examines a broad spectrum of current topics in management accounting.