ECRM 2016 - 15th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies ECRM 2016

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