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Chapter 1 What is business and management research? An introduction to the research process
Section 1.1 What is business and management research?
What do consultants do?
Visit the sites of some well-known consulting firms:
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers (http://www.pwcglobal.com/)
- Accenture (http://www.accenture.com/)
- McKinsey (http://www.mckinsey.com/)
- A T Kearney (http://www.atkearney.com/)
What do journalists do?
Visit the web sites of some news sources:
- New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/)
- Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/)
- London Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/)
- London Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/)
- The Financial Times (http://www.ft.com)
- Times Higher Education Supplement (http://www.thes.co.uk)
- BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/)
- Slate (http://www.slate.com/)
- Social Science Information Gateway for Management (http://www.sosig.ac.uk/business/)
What do researchers do?
- Economic and Social Research Council (http://www.esrc.ac.uk)
- Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/)
- British Academy of Management (http://www.bam.ac.uk/)
- American Academy of Management (http://www.aomonline.org)
- European Academy of Management (http://www.euram-online.org/associations/euram/index.asp)
Section 1.2 Business and management research in wider context
Section 1.3 Before you get started
Stanley Milgram and his famous experiment
- A homage to Milgram (http://www.stanleymilgram.com/milgram.html)
- A re-enactment of his experiment (http://www.milgramreenactment.org/)
- A review of Milgram's biography (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n22/disk01_.html)
- Frederick W Taylor and scientific management A critique of Taylor (http://www.marxists.org/reference/)
- Taylor's archives (http://www.lib.stevens-tech.edu/collections/fwtaylor/index.html)
The Hawthorne experiment
- http://www.accel-team.com/motivation/hawthorne_01.html
- http://courses.bus.ualberta.ca/orga417-reshef/mayo.htm
- A critique (http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~jstock/tb/ch11_slides_1.doc)
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