Academic Research, Publishing and Writing: Critical Thinking and Strategies for Business Scholars

by John Dumay

Overview

Academic Research, Publishing and Writing: Critical Thinking and Strategies for Business Scholars is designed for all scholars of business and management and outlines practical and proven ways of designing, developing, and executing impactful research and writing projects with a view to eventual publication.

Chapters examine a wide range of essential scholarly practices in depth, including critical thinking and the IDEALS Framework, undertaking literature reviews, designing research for reliability, validity and generalisations, and understanding writing structure using IDEALS.

John Dumay draws on experience and proven strategies to help the reader plot what they are going to research, what the potential impact of that research should be, what are the critical outlets for publishing are, and how should the research be written for the target audience.

At the projects core is a strong focus on the importance on developing a strategy before starting the research which will increase the chances of publishing in high quality outlets, and surviving in the ‘publish or perish’ world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800712911
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	05/30/2024
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

John Dumay is Professor of Accounting and Finance at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is co-author of Business Models: A Research Overview (2018), Interventionist research in accounting: a methodological approach (2021), Reframing mergers and acquisitions around stakeholder relationships: economic, political and social processes (2023), and Making sense of stakeholder management (2023).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Critical Thinking and the IDEALS Framework
Chapter 2. Becoming a Critical Scholar
Chapter 3. Developing a Publishing Strategy
Chapter 4. Undertaking a Critical Literature Review
Chapter 5. Designing Research for Reliability, Validity and Generalisations
Chapter 6. Writing Structure Using Reasoning and IDEALS
Chapter 7. Polishing the Diamond

Editorial Reviews

We can all learn from this book. Follow even a fraction of John Dumay's advice and you’ll increase your chances of publishing more academic articles that are more engaging and easier to digest by your intended audience. Your papers will be cited more, and you’ll have fun while writing them. This book should be required reading for all postgraduate research students and early career scholars, and the rest of us should re-read it every so often to ensure we stick to the success formula John advocates.

Charl de Villiers

This essential book for researchers, students and policymakers contains seven chapters from Professor John Dumay on developing critical research, writing, and publishing strategy. It is writing in a storytelling style using the author's experience as to how he developed the skills to be an excellent publisher of scholarly work in journal articles, book chapters, books, and the media. This book testifies that writing scholarly work is an art form to be experienced and learned.

James Guthrie