scholarly journals Burdened in Business: Pacific Early Career Academic Experiences with Promoting Pacific Research Methodologies in the Business Academy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sisikula Sisifa ◽  
ʻIlaisaane Fifita
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Academic Experiences ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Research Methodologies

Ongoing calls to indigenise the academy renew debate regarding the value and significance of Pacific and Indigenous philosophies and methodologies. This paper contributes to this conversation by reflecting on our experience as Tongan women and early career academics promoting the utility of Pacific methodologies such as talanoa within business research in Aotearoa. We examine the constraints on and drivers to adopting talanoa in our respective fields to argue that institutional demands and limited Pacific capacity within the business space restrict our ability to work towards legitimising talanoa and drive future-focused directions in research. These factors hinder our ability to actively contribute to the agenda of indigenising the business academy.

scholarly journals Educated and Engaged Communicators Are Critical to Successful Integrated Pest Management Adoption

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan C Gott ◽  
David R Coyle
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Ability To Work

Abstract Integrated pest management (IPM) programs combining multiple compatible pest control tactics can result in effective commodity protection, pesticide use reduction, and cost savings – yet establishment of IPM programs is still low in many areas of the United States. While several potential causes of and solutions to low adoption rates exist, our focus is on the often-neglected human aspect of IPM. IPM educators who serve as the conduit of IPM research and advice to IPM practitioners often face challenges in areas that are less scientific and more social, such as communication and teaching. The skills needed in these areas (e.g., conflict management and resolution, needs assessment, negotiation, training, and informal education) are sometimes neglected in the professional development of future IPM educators, to the detriment of their ability to work with practitioners to encourage adoption of IPM programs. We explore these challenges, including a survey of current IPM educators, and propose areas of communication skills that could be included in the professional development of future or early-career IPM educators.

scholarly journals Emotions and agency in prison research

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 205979912092634
Author(s):  
Joe Garrihy ◽  
Aoife Watters
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Emotional Agents ◽  
The Impact

The emotionality of prison research has received much justified attention in recent years. However, this aspect of undertaking qualitative research is often not considered by early career researchers until they are confronted with the impact of both researching emotionally laden subjects and employing their emotional agency as the researcher. Emerging from this, the authors argue for the development of a methodology that conceives researchers as emotional agents. This methodology incorporates harnessing emotional experiences as a tool for data collection. In this way, researchers are encouraged and trained to shift from passive to active emotional agents. Thus, far from inhibiting the research, the inherent emotionality of conducting research enhances its rigour, integrity and validity. Emotionality is intrinsic to conducting research in the prison milieu. As such, it warrants constructive employment and integration into existing research methodologies. This article draws on the authors’ respective experiences conducting mixed methods research in prison settings. The authors’ research methodologies incorporated emotional reflexivity as a core constituent throughout their data collection, analysis and the writing of their doctoral studies. The argument will be illustrated by detailing experiences of emotional charge during the fieldwork. To reflect this, the authors advocate for the emergence of an integrative methodology. The development of such a methodology would be of value to prison researchers but particularly to novice and/or doctoral researchers. Furthermore, it would be similarly applicable to researchers throughout the field of criminal justice and beyond.

scholarly journals Understanding and Applying Research Paradigms in Educational Contexts

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Kivunja ◽  
Ahmed Bawa Kuyini
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Pertinent Literature ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research Students ◽  
Key Aspects

The concept of research paradigm is one that many higher degree research students, and even early career researchers, find elusive to articulate, and challenging to apply in their research proposals. Adopting an ethnographic and hermeneutic methodology, the present paper draws upon our experiences as lecturers in Research Methods over many years, and upon pertinent literature to explain the meaning of research paradigm. The paper elucidates the key aspects of research paradigms that researchers should understand well to be able to address this concept adequately in their research proposals. It offers suggestions on how researchers can locate their research into a paradigm and the justification needed for paradigm choice. With the explicit purpose of helping higher degree research (HDR) students design effective research proposals, the paper also discusses the different research methodologies best suited to conduct research in each of the paradigms discussed. 

The Application of Reflexivity in Small Business Research and Implications for the Business Practitioner

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 439-447
Author(s):  
Nigel Harrison ◽  
Janet Kirkham
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Business World ◽  
Complexity Thinking ◽  
Insight Into

This paper is based on a review of the lead author's research, which took the form of a self-narrative from a practitioner about the perceived realities of one small business and its owner. The paper explores the practical application of auto-ethnographic reflexive research methodologies and seeks to demonstrate that structured ways can be developed to enable complexity-inspired reflexive research to take place usefully in organizations. The authors review the appropriateness of a reflexive methodology, using ideas inspired by complexity thinking in the study of small businesses and their owner–managers. They highlight the practical difficulties encountered by a practitioner/researcher when attempting to employ reflexive methodology in the small business environment as a means of illuminating and understanding the driving forces that lie behind the outwardly observable characteristics of small businesses and their owner–managers. The approach remains relatively unknown in small business research and this mirrors a lack of acceptance in wider academic circles. The authors acknowledge the criticisms and discuss the limitations of the use of these techniques, but argue for their benefits to be more widely recognized. The outcomes presented offer an insight into behaviours and motivations not often articulated in the SME business world.

Selecting Methodologies for Entrepreneurial Research: Trade-offs and Guidelines

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken G. Smith ◽  
Martin J. Gannon ◽  
Harry J. Sapienza
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Trade Offs

Entrepreneurial (including small-business) research is characterized by a large number of different research methodologies, each of which possesses advantages and disadvantages. Hence an entrepreneurial researcher must consider the trade-offs associated with each type of methodology. This paper describes these trade-offs and develops a set of guidelines that a researcher can use for selecting a specific type of methodology.

scholarly journals Business Research Methodologies and the need for Economies of Scale in the Business Research Process: Harnessing the Innovation Opportunities of Novel Technologies and Technological Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris William Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business Research ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Novel Theory

Theory and evidence suggests that returns to research and research and development are currently declining. This paper seeks to identify patterns in the use of business research methodologies in certain of the latest articles published at the forefront of the field of business research innovation, from its leading journal. This literature is used to identify the current front line of business research methodologies at the forefront of the field. Propositions are derived from novel theory, and are critically juxtaposed against identified topics and methodologies in these articles. In so doing, the conceptual distance of the front line of empirical research in the field from the radical front line of theory in the broader field is quantified. Methodological implications are discussed and recommendations are made for the development of a future research agenda.

The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

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