Doing research that matters [[electronic resource] ] : shaping the future of management / / Marco Busi

• Autore: Busi Marco
• Pubblicazione: Bingley, : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.00720000000001
• Soggetto topico: Management - Research; Success in business - Research
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Doing Research that Matters: Shaping the Future of Management; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Prologue - My Declaration of Intent; Personal Introduction To The Futureers; Chapter 1. Shaping the Future of Management by Reinventing Management Research; Does the Management Field Really Need More Insight?; What Do You Want to Be: A Storyteller or a True Innovator?; The System of Management Research: A Hard to Change Equilibrium; Focus on Building a Meaningful Journey and You Will Inevitably End Up at a Meaningful Destination ; Chapter 2. Destination Paradise: Understanding What to Aim For Exploring What Makes Us Proud; Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?; The Insight Generator Element; The Insight Incubator Element; The Insight Distributor Element; Chapter 3. The Thrill of Discovery; Once Upon a Time: How Does It All Begin?; Curiosity; Serendipity; An Unfair Disadvantage, or Seeing Opportunities Where Others See Problems?; Inspiration and Encouragement from Others; What Does It Take to Have Impact?; What Drives People to Continue Their Research Journey? ; Answering Important and Difficult Questions about Which Little Is Known Changing and/or Influencing People's Behavior; Adding to the Body of Knowledge; Foster New Discovery; Generating Further Research and Thinking; Impact: Embracing Our Role and Responsibility; Chapter 4. The BIG (or small) Q: Finding Romantic Problems Worth Studying; Romantic Problems Worth Investigating; Hints to Finding Romantic Problems; 1 - Follow Your Passion; 2 - Don't Resist the Unfamiliar; 3 - Read Everything There Is to Read; 4 - Look into Your Head and 5 - Out into the Field; 4 - In Our Heads; 5 - Out in the Field ; 6 - Look Where Others Don't Look, and See What Others Don't See 7 - Search at the Intersections; 8 - Develop the 'Right' Mindset; 9 - Foster the 'Right' Mindset; What's New?; Chapter 5. Enjoy the Ride; Research Designed to Impress; Research Designed to Matter; 1 - Take a More Pragmatic, Less Rigid Approach to Investigating a Problem; 2 - Follow a Never-Ending Iterative Research Process, Putting Yourself in the Shoes of 'The Customer'; 3 - Be Creative; When Things Don't Go as Expected; Is There a 'Best' Research Methodology?; Are You Prepared for What Might Come? ; Chapter 6. Travelling Solo, or in Groups?Collaboration in Relation to Research That Matters; Investing in Collaboration; ''Collaboration with the Future Generations'' Perspective; ''Collaboration between Geographies'' Perspective; ''Collaboration between Genders'' Perspective; ''Collaboration Inter-Disciplines'' Perspective; One, Few, or Many?; Making Collaboration Work: Be Choosy about Who You're Going to Work With; Shared Values; Compatibility of Personalities; Complementarity of Competences; Think about How Your System Affects You; How Not to Collaborate? ; Making Collaboration Work for Yourself
• Sommario/riassunto: If you believe the impact of management research and education is in decline, this book will help you play your part. Doing Research that Matters looks at an old issue from a new perspective, taking a fresh and cross-disciplinary approach to learning how we can contribute with our work to shaping the future of management. Readers are invited to sit back and relax while they are taken on a journey through the views and work of a group of exemplary professionals: top-management gurus Rob Goffee, Robert Kaplan, Barbara Kellerman, Philip Kotler, John Kotter, Howard Gardner, Costas Markides, Roger
• Titolo autorizzato: Doing research that matters
• ISBN: 0-85724-708-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452910003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II