Management research has expanded considerably over recent decades. The impetus for such growth comes from a wide range of forces both inside and outside of the academic community stimulate and regulate its development, while the audience for which management research might be considered to be useful and the extent of that usefulness are highly contested. This book seeks to explore the forces that drive the development of management research, shape its current state and influence its future potential.

1. Introduction: Key Debates, Challenges and Controversies in Management Research. Catherine Cassell and Bill Lee Section I: Positioning Management Research 2. Positioning Current UK Management Research. Richard Thorpe and Paul Ellwood 3. Business and Management Research in the UK from 1900 to 2009 and Beyond. Huw Morris 4. Management Research: A View From the Baltic. Asta Pundzienë 5. Comparative Research Epistemology and Methodology: Past, Present and Promising. Ralph Stablein and Joy Panoho 6. Global Research: Transcending Boundaries When Learning to Collaborate and Learning from Collaboration. Elena Antonacopolou Section II: The Institutional Context 7. Linking Management Research and Management Education: Syntheses and Challenges. Steven Armstrong and Cynthia Fukami 8. Managerialism and Management Research: Would Melville Dalton Get a Job Today? Emma Bell 9. Publishing Management Research. Rolf van Dick 10. Research Audits and Their Financial Consequences. Michael Rowlinson, John Hassard and Simon Mohun 11. (AC)Counting Research: The Value of a Holistic Understanding. Chris Humphrey and Kari Lukka Section III: Theoretical Issues 12. Current Theoretical Debates in Management Research: Epistemological Analysis in Strategic Management. Vadake Narayanan and Lee Zane 13. When Science and Philosophy Meet: One Explication of the Relationship between Evidence and Theory in Management Research. Mark Learmonth 14. The Potential of Radical Research: Marxism, Labour Process Theory and Critical Management Studies. John Hassard, and Michael Rowlinson Section IV: Impact, Relevance and Practice 15. The Management Researcher as Practitioner - Issues From the Interface. Mark Saunders 16. Seeking Relevance in Management Research. Robin Wensley 17. Using Management Research to Influence Policymakers. David Heald 18. Working with the Voluntary Sector. Jenny Harrow and Karl Wilding 19. Advancing Practice-Relevant Scholarship. Elena Antonacopoulou Section V: Challenges for the Future 20. Handling Large Datasets. Wissam Abdallah and Marc Goergen 21. Challenging the Gendered Nature of Management Research. Adelina Broadbridge and Sandra Fielden 22. Small Business and Entrepreneurship (SBE): An Analysis of Publications and Implications for the Development of the Field. Mirela Xheneti and Robert Blackburn 23. Theorising after the Postmodern. David Boje 24. Why Complicate A Done Deal? Bringing Reflexivity into Management Research . Ann Cunliffe