ECRM 2013 - 12th European Conference on Research Methods

Each year the European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM) provides a forum to meet and exchange views on our lives as researchers and academics, with others who understand the world in which we live. Over a few days, with those impassioned with all that is and could be methodology, we hear the words ‘paradigm’, ‘mixed methods’, ‘research strategies’ and many more, both in the formal sessions and later around meal tables and elsewhere. For many participants this conference has become an eagerly awaited stop on the personal voyage of discovery that is ‘research’.
Publication opportunity
Papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings. ECRM Proceedings have an ISBN and are accredited on various lists. Click the star in the right hand box to view these accreditations. Papers will also be considered for publication in a special issue of the Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods. (ISSN: 1477-029) The latest issue of the journal is available to read online.
The conference committee is attracted by both theoretical and practical papers on many subjects, as well as by innovative ideas and experiences. We are also interested in case studies that demonstrate how research strategies have been applied and the lessons learned. We welcome contributions on many topics, presenting a range of scholarly approaches. theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods are eagerly awaited. Action research, case studies and work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for roundtable discussions, non-academic contributions and product demonstrations based on the main themes are also invited. You can find full details in the submission types document (.pdf format).
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Details of how to submit are given below. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
General topics:
§ Projective techniques
§ Scales development and constructs measurement
§ Methods for Ensuring Survey Research Quality
§ The use of qualitative and quantitative research methods
§ Theoretical and empirical research
§ IT adoption research
§ Economic research
§ Design-oriented research
§ Evaluation research
§ Dissertation development process
§ Developing research proposals
§ Research design and triangulation
§ Getting academic papers accepted by journals
§ Theory development
§ Concept verification
§ Research supervision
§ Research protocols
§ Research ethics
§ Research questions
§ Reflexivity
§ Field-work
§ Problem solving
§ Reflective practice
§ Usability scale implementation
§ Data structuring
§ Experimental procedures
§ Replication logic
§ Codes of conduct
§ Human subjects
§ Conjoint analysis, cluster analysis and segmentation
§ Business and management education
§ The role of Paradigms in business and IS research
§ Mutual research designs
§ Interpretative theory
§ Paradigmatic divide
§ Researcher roles
§ Focus groups
§ Marketing research
§ Mixed designs
§ Design research
§ Intercultural research
§ Agent based approaches in business research
§ Research in the Middle East
§ Delphi method
§ Case study research method
§ Action research
§ Computer modelling and simulation
§ Visual methodologies
§ Online research methods
§ Relativist approaches to qualitative research.
§ Use of self-research and autobiographies as a means of undertaking and reporting research
§ Research teaching within 21st century higher education institutions
Researching Sensitive issues:
§ Confidentiality and ethics
§ Ethnicity
§ Race
§ Gender
§ Age
§ Disability
§ Sexuality
§ Ill-health
§ Mental health
§ Stress
§ Relationships at work
§ Intimacy
§ Bullying
§ Emotions in organisations
§ Ideology
§ Propaganda
§ Union membership
§ Whistle blowing
§ Trust and distrust
§ Honesty
§ Work and home life balance
§ Superstitions
§ Belief and disbelief
§ Faith
§ Religion and cultural practices.
§ Ethnography and the Risky Workplace