Business Research Methods 6e Paperback - 2022

Emma Bell is Professor of Organisation Studies at the Open University, UK. Her research explores culture, belief, and materiality in organizations using qualitative methods of inquiry and has been published in journals including iOrganization Studies, Human Relations, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Organization, Management Learning/i and the iBritish Journal of Management/i. Emma is currently joint Vice-Chair Research and Publications of the British Academy of Management and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Alan Bryman was Professor of Organizational and Social Research at the University of Leicester from 2005 to 2017. Prior to this he was Professor of Social Research at Loughborough University for thirty-one years. His main research interests were in leadership, especially in higher education, research methods (particularly mixed methods research), and the 'Disneyization' and 'McDonaldization' of modern society. Alan was also the author of the bestselling textbook iBryman's Social Research Methods/i (Oxford University Press, 2021) as well as contributing to a range of leading journals: he was an extraordinarily well-cited and internationally-renowned social scientist.

Bill Harley is Professor of Management in the Department of Management and Marketing at The University of Melbourne. Bill's academic research has been motivated by an abiding interest in the centrality of work to human life. His work has been published in journals including the iBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Learning & Education Industrial Relations, /i and iWork Employment and Society/i. Bill was previously General Editor of Journal of Management Studies and is currently on the editorial boards of the same journal, as well as iAcademy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences and Human Relations/i. He is Chair of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies.