Designing Research for Publication

Anne Huff is Visiting Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the TUM Business School in Munich, Germany, where she is helping organize research on open innovation that crosses traditional organizational boundaries, product-service fusion and leadership systems.  She was Founding Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), a UK wide management research initiative with offices based at the London Business School, and continues to be a visiting AIM fellow at LBS.  She is also a visiting professor in the Communications Department of the University of Colorado, and had prior appointments at the University of Illinois, and UCLA.  She earned a BA from Barnard College (philosophy), as well as an MA (sociology) and PhD (management) from Northwestern University.   Her research interests focus on sustained innovation and strategic change; both are seen as dynamic processes of interaction among firms and as cognitive processes affected by the interaction of individuals over time.  Recent books include Mapping Strategic Knowledge. Sage, 2002 (edited, with Mark Jenkins), When Firms Change Direction. Oxford University Press, 2000 (with James O. Huff), and  Writing for Scholarly Publication (Sage, 1998).    In 1998-99 Anne was President of the Academy of Management, an association of management researchers with 16,000 members worldwide; she held associated leadership positions from 1995 to 2001.  In August 2003 she received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of that association.  She serves on the boards of several professional organizations and journals.

I would recommend this book as supplemental reading for postdoctoral students and early career academics.

• PrefacePart I: Choosing an Academic HomeChapter 1: Finding the Right ConversationChapter 2: Criteria for ContributionChapter 3: Theoretical ExplanationChapter 4: Evolution of Scholarly ProjectsPart II: Designing Your ContributionChapter 5: Research DesignChapter 6: Ontology and EpistemologyChapter 7: Disciplines, Professions, and Their Subfields of InquiryChapter 8: Literature ReviewChapter 9: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed MethodsChapter 10: Links to Practice and PolicyChapter 11: Modeling Theoretical Propositions, by David WhettenChapter 12: Evaluation of Research Design and OutcomesPart III: Conversations About ScholarshipChapter 13: Mike Wallace on Critical Reading and WritingChapter 14: Gary Gaile, Susan Clarke, and Jim Huff on Controversies About TheoryChapter 15: Susan Hanson on the Evolution of Multidisciplinary and Coauthored Research ProjectsAppendix A: Internet Tools Supporting ScholarshipAppendix B: Questions for Those Designing Research, by Vivek VelamuriAppendix C: Exercises SummaryAppendix D: Advice SummaryAppendix E: Summary of Political and Career QuestionsGlossarySelected Bibliography, by Tobias FredbergAbout the Author