SIG 12: Research Methods and Research Practice
The Research Methods and Research Practice (RM&RP) strategic interest group (SIG) exists to promote debates around all aspects of academic research, from its conception through to its execution and dissemination, in all business and management disciplines.
By advancing knowledge about the usefulness of different methods and the facilitators of – and constraints on – the use of those methods, it seeks to enable researchers to improve the design and execution of their research. The RM&RP SIG aims to stimulate debate in a supportive environment in which all levels of academic from doctoral students through to senior professors feel at home.
SIG chair: Bill Lee (University of Sheffield, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Programme chair: Jacqueline Fendt (ESCP Europe, France) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG General Track
12-00 Uncertainty in Research and Researching Uncertainty – Advances in Research Methods and Practices
Rather than constituting a threat, uncertainty provides a lever to help address managerial and societal negative outcomes in an innovative way. This view raises a number of questions about methods and practices. What novel methods and practices contribute to understanding uncertainty? What role can the Internet and social media play in our efforts to understand, explain, and exploit uncertain contexts? We welcome manuscripts on any aspect of research methods and practice concerned with leveraging uncertainty to challenge constraints in research and to engage with a wider audience, particularly those whose voice is not often heard.
Chairs: Jacqueline Fendt (ESCP Europe, France) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Gianpaolo Abatecola (Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Stefano Armenia (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Evandro Boccato (MacEwan University, School of Business, Canada) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Robert Breitnecker (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Catherine Cassell (University of Leeds, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Gail Clarkson (University of Leeds, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Gianluca Colombo (University of Lugano, Switzerland) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Stephen Dobson (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Bill Lee (University of Sheffield, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Edoardo Mollona (Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Heidi Wechtler (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Keywords: Qualitative methods; Quantitative methods; Mixed methods; Systems design and databases; Stakeholder engagement, impact and dissemination; Adaption of research methods to uncertainty.
SIG Standing Track
ST_12-01 Evolutionary and Darwinian Methodological Endeavours in Management Research
This track seeks papers that address uncertainty by adopting theory-led, holistic, multi-level, systems thinking, population thinking and co-evolutionary approaches through the partial (or general) applying of the Darwinian principles of adaptive fit, accumulation of complexity and multifinality from common origin.
Proponents: Johan Kask (Örebro University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dermot Breslin (University of Sheffield)
Roberto Cafferata (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")
Fiorenza Belussi (University of Padua)
Gianpaolo Abatecola (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")
Stephen Dobson (Sheffield Hallam University)
Luigi Orsi (University of Padua)
Ilfryn Pryce (Sheffield Hallam University)
Keywords: Evolutionary Approaches; Evolutionary Epistemology; Generalised Darwinism; Multi-Level Co-Evolution; Organizational Adaptation; Organizational Life Cycle.