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“…while (business) schools differed regarding the importance of theory-based and empirical research, no significant differences were found in terms of the importance of internationally oriented and managerially relevant research for promotion and tenure decisions”
Martinez, Z. L.; Toyne, B. (2000) Research expectations at Business Schools: responding to changing business education pressures. Journal of Marketing Management; 16 (7), p. 774
To provide background information about research, we present a selected list of resources under the following subject classification:
2.1- Research sources
2.2- Being up-to-date: alert services
2.3- Managing bibliographic citations
2.4- Useful tips on research: on the web and on the library
2.1- Research sources
Although there are a lot databases you can use for research purposes (more information in Databases by subject page), we want to focus on an essential online tool for research development in academic institutions ISI Web of Knowledge.
http://go5.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi
ISI WoK is a useful portal for:
• Retrospective research:
-Locate articles of academic journals, conference proceedings, book chapters…
-Discover the foundations of a paper: the article’s cited references
-Discover the influence of a paper: records of articles that cite the displayed article.
-Using citations relationships to find “more like this”: papers that have cited the same references.
• Analyze and evaluate research performance:
-Evaluate and compare academic journals: highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, hottest journals and largest journals
-Access to essential research rankings:
Citation rankings of scientists, institutions, countries and journals.
Most cited papers: highly cited papers (last 10 years) and hot papers (last 2 years).
Citation analysis: baselines and “research fronts”
ISI platform offers integrated access to more than 14 databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals of all areas of research:
ISI Web of Science
ISI Current Content Connect
ISI Proceedings
Derwent Innovation Index |
contains articles in academic journals, books, web literature, conference literature, etc. of emerging research areas. |
ISI Journal Citation Reports
ISI Essential Science Indicators |
analyzes and evaluates research through bibliographic references and citation determining the relative importance of journals, authors and institutions. |
2.2- Being up-to-date: alert services
Research efficiency can be increased by using alerting services. Several databases allow us to create search alerts and journal table of contents alerts.
A search alert notifies you by e-mail when a stored search retrieves new results: new articles published on a topic, last news published on a company, market or industry we are interested in. A journal issue alert notifies you by e-mail when a new issue of a particular journal becomes available.
Alert services can be set up in several databases:
ISI Web of Knowledge: for academic journals
Business Source Premier & Econlit: for business and economics journals
Blackwell Synergy, Science Direct, Wiley, Kluwer, etc.: for journals published by specific publishers.
• How to create an alert step by step:
ISI Web of Knowledge.
You should sign in first to take advantage of features such as alerting, my journal list, and personal preferences.
1. Register yourself from the ISI homepage
http://go5.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi
Registration is simple. It requires only an e-mail address and a password.
2. Creating a search alert.
-First sign in using your e-mail and password and do any regular search.
-Once you have retrieved the result list, if you are satisfied with the search strategy and you want to save it, select the “Advance Search” icon and save the searches you are interested in by clicking the “Save history” button.
-Enter a name in the “History Name” box and a description (optional). Click “Send Me E-mail Alerts” and save.
-The alert service will send you on a weekly basis by e-mail the search updates.
3. Creating table of contents alerts
-First sign in using your e-mail and password.
-Enter in “Create my journal list”
-Search journals by browsing journal titles or by searching full journal title.
-Click on the Journal title and check:
display on my home page
send me table of contents e-mail alerts
Business Source Premier & Econlit.
1. First you must set up a personal account:
-Click the “Sign In to My EBSCOhost” link. The Sign In Screen appears.
-Click “I'm a new user”. The Create a New Account Screen appears.
2. Saving a search as an alert
-From the Advanced Search Screen, with your Search History listed, click “Save Searches/Alerts”. The Saved Search/Alert Screen appears.
-To save the search as an Alert that can be automatically run, click “Alert”. The Save Alert Screen appears. The search name, description and date created are displayed. Follow the instructions on the screen.
3. Setting up a journal alert
-From the title's Publication Overview Screen, click the “Journal Alert” link.
-The Journal Alert Screen appears. The Journal Alert name, Date Created, and Database name are automatically filled in.
-Follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
Electronic Journals Publishers, Blackwell Synergy, EBSCO host Electronic Journals, Science Direct, Wiley, Kluwer, etc.
http://www.iese.es/es/ConocimientoeInvestigacion/Library/EResources/EJournals/E-journals.asp
Many publishers now offer services for setting up an alert to receive news by e-mail and receive new tables of contents of a specific list of journals. Each publisher offers a specific way to do it, instructions are very similar starting by registration, login and saving a search as an alert.
2.3-Managing bibliographic citations
2.3.1 Bibliographic citations guidelines
2.3.2 Bibliographic software managers
2.3.1- Bibliographic citations guidelines
The goal of a citation is to allow the information to be retrieved again. With this in mind, check to make sure that the information you provide will allow your reader to retrieve the material you cite.
Bibliographic citations. Luleä University Library
http://www.luth.se/depts/lib/utbildning/referenser/index-en.shtml
Examples on how to document the bibliographic references. You can use them as a basis to style your references as needed.
ISO 690:1987 Bibliographic references - Content, form and structure
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/iso/tc46sc9/standard/690-1e.htm
This International Standard specifies the elements to be included in bibliographic references to published monographs and serials, to chapters, articles, etc. in such publications and to patent documents. It sets out a prescribed order for the elements of the reference and establishes conventions for the transcription and presentation of information derived from the source publication.
ISO 690-2. How to cite electronic documents
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/iso/tc46sc9/standard/690-2e.htm
Excerpts from International Standard ISO 690-2: Information and documentation show the basic specifications for data elements and their prescribed order in bibliographic references to electronic documents.
MLA-Style Guidelines and Models for Documenting Internet
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/inbox/mla_archive.html#walker-mla
These guidelines and models are based upon Janice Walker s "MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources (Endorsed by the Alliance for Computers and Writing)," Vers. 1.0; it is revised as recommended by Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger in "Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Sources on the Internet"
Cómo citar recursos electrónicos
Universitat de Barcelona
http://www.ub.es/biblio/citae-e.htm
A document that explains how to refer to electronic resources in bibliographic compilations mixed with traditional documents.
Universidad de Sevilla. Cómo elaborar referencias bibliograficas
http://bib.us.es/guias_old/referenciabib.asp
Guidelines from the library at the Universidad de Sevilla on how to cite bibliographic references in Spanish.
2.3.2- Bibliographic software managers
Reference management software helps researchers to manage their references, enabling them to store, organize, retrieve and format lists of references. A database of references can be created which can then be stored, searched and used in conjunction with word processing applications, such as MS Word, to input references as you write an article or create independent bibliographies. Bibliographic software also allows formatting requirements to be tailored to particular journal or publishing styles.
References can be imported directly from multiple online bibliographic databases.
Currently, IESE subscribes to RefWorks
http://www.refworkscom/refworks
2.4- Useful tips on research
Resources on the net…
CORDIS. Community Research & Development Information Service
http://www.cordis.lu/en/home.html
A unique initiative for strengthening the competitiveness of European organizations, CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service) represents the best starting point for any search for research, development, innovation related information and services. As an integral part of the European Commission's CORDIS provides information on a vast range of research, development and innovation activities undertaken on a European level.
Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología
http://www.mcyt.es/grupos/grupo_pcitec.htm
Web of the Spanish Ministry on Science and Technology. Covers indicators, statistics and governmental programmes on research and development at national level.
Social Science Research Network
http://www.ssrn.com/
SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. The Networks encourage readers to communicate directly with authors and other subscribers concerning their own and others' research. Access to an electronic library with e-Paper Collection, currently containing over 43,300 documents.
Academic Business Libraries in North & Central America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific
Thomas J. Long Business & Economics Library. UC Berkeley
http://library.berkeley.edu/BUSI/businessLibs.html/
List of academic business libraries in North & Central America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific that belong to one of the following groups: Academic Business Library Directors, European Business School Librarians' Group, or Asia-Pacific Business School Librarians' Group.
Conference calls
Inomics
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/conference
Compiles all upcoming conferences and similar events. You can subscribe to the weekly “Conference Alert” mail service with new conference calls.
Resources for Economists on the Internet
http://www.rfe.org/
This guide is sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists 1,374 resources in 97 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all resources are also described.
… and other references in the IESE Library
The Library has a book titles collection which covers the fields of company management and business science. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the material, the collection also has a short number of publications on research methodology.
Here we offer you a short selection of documents on this subject, a list of books made by following the number of checkouts of each document in the library.
92.00-CRE
Creswell, John W.
Research design : qualitative & quantitative approaches
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1994
228 p.
Creswell's Research Design is an accessible and useful book that stimulates students through walk-through experiences, use of exercises, and production of actual writing samples. It is a book that models the types of issues that best suit different approaches and allows students to understand when to use mixed methods. Furthermore, its focus on theory and paradigms is done in a way that helps students decode their meaning.
92.00-DAV
Davis, Gordon Bitter.
Writing the doctoral dissertation: a systematic approach
Hauppauge [New York] : Barron's Educational Series, 1979
148 p.
A concise handbook for doctoral candidates in all fields: how to select an advisor, develop a topic, write the proposal, schedule your time, and prepare the final work. With tips on how to work with the dissertation committee and how to defend your dissertation.
92.01-DOI
Doing exemplary research
edited by Peter J. Frost, Ralph E. Stablein
Newbury Park [etc.] : Sage, 1992
321 p.
This volume explores the doing of research - as a `journey' for those involved. It looks at the meanings of exemplary research practice. Authors' descriptions of the origins, experiences and outcomes of their own research are interwoven with commentaries on these by other major figures in the field. The book is an outstanding resource for all organizational researchers.
92.00-EAS
Easterby-Smith, Mark
Management research: an introduction
London [etc.] : Sage, 1991
X, 172 p. ; 22 cm
A popular and accessible introduction to the field, this book enables students to tackle complex issues, offering a definite statement of basic methodologies for management research today. The book draws together the main threads of both quantitative and qualitative management research and provides a bridge between theoretical and practical issues.
92.00-ECO
Eco, Umberto
Cómo se hace una tesis: Técnicas y procedimientos de estudio, investigación y escritura
Barcelona : Gedisa, 1986
267 p.
Research techniques and proceedings, study and writing. The advises in this book are for students ready to write a thesis. The author is putting together the most useful tools to finish such a research compilation: define a thesis, how to define the subject, develop an appropriate schedule, how to build a good bibliography, how to organize found information, and finally how to organize the final writing. It is a practical manual very useful for all humanistic students.
92.00-HAM
Hamel, Jacques
Case study methods
Newbury Park: Sage Publications, c1993
77p.
The use of the case study goes back to the beginnings of social science research and is still one of the most common forms of qualitative research. This book is a handy introduction to understanding, researching, and doing case studies in the social sciences and related fields. In this brief monograph, Jacques Hamel outlines several differing traditions of case study research—the Chicago School of Sociology, the anthropological case studies of Malinowski and others, and the French Le Play school tradition. Hamel shows how each developed, changed, and has been practiced over time. Practical suggestions are included for doing case study research and a comprehensive bibliography on case study methods in social science allows for further exploration.
92.00-HAN
Handbook of qualitative research
Edited by Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c2000
1065 p.
Once again, editors Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln have put together a volume that represents the state of the art for the theory and practice of qualitative inquiry. Built on the foundation of the landmark first edition, published in 1994, the second edition is both the bridge and the roadmap to the territory that lies ahead for researchers across the disciplines.
92.00-HAN
Handbook of survey research
Edited by Peter H. Rossi, James D. Wright, Andy B. Anderson
San Diego: Academic Press, c1983
755 p.
This volume is a comprehensive guide to the major components of survey research design and data analysis. State-of-the-art essays by acknowledged authorities in the field outline the techniques and practical applications of every aspect of survey research. The thorough presentation and up-to-date bibliographies make this an invaluable handbook for the practitioner and student.
92.00-MIL
Miles, Matthew B.
Qualitative data analysis: an expanded sourcebook
Thousand Oaks [etc.]: Sage Publications, c1994
338p.
A practical sourcebook for researchers who make use of qualitative data, presentinMiami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Councilg the current state of the craft in the design, testing, and use of qualitative analysis methods. Strong emphasis is placed on data displays--matrices and networks--that go beyond ordinary narrative text. Each method of data display and analysis is described and illustrated in detail, with practical suggestions to users for adaptation and use.
92.00-VIS
Visauta Vinacua, Bienvenido
Técnicas de investigación social: recogida de datos
Barcelona: PPU, 1989
389 p.
A book focused on data compilation techniques. Exhaustive and organise compilation of the methodology and of the most used data compilation techniques in social research. Regarding measurement scales, contents analysis, and studding different types of interviews, surveys, tests, dynamics and group analysis.
92.00-YIN
Yin, Robert K.
Case study research: design and methods
Thousand Oaks [etc.]: Sage Publications, 1994
171 p.
Robert Yin's comprehensive presentation covers all aspects of the case study method--from problem definition, design, and data collection, to data analysis and composition and reporting. Yin also traces the uses and importance of case studies to a wide range of disciplines, from sociology, psychology and history to management, planning, social work, and education.
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