| Paper Title | Author(s) | Page No. |
| Preface | | vi |
| Biographies of Conference Chairs, Programme Chair, Keynote Speaker and Mini-track Chairs | | vii |
| Biographies of contributing authors | | viii |
| Challenges of Conducting Qualitative Research in Iranian Universities and Research Institutes | Khodayar Abili | 1 |
| Action Research in a Foodservice Store: Reflections on Methodology | Mohamed Afifi, Peter Jones and Anita Eves | 9 |
| Integrating Affect With Psychological Contract Breach (PCB) and Work Attitudes: A Case of Pakistani University Teachers | Ghulam Ali Arain, Imran Hameed, Delphine Lacaze and Jean Marie Peretti | 17 |
| Towards a Methodology of the Imagination: A (Radical) Proposal | Andrew Armitage | 25 |
| Egalité, Fraternité, Liberté - A Supervision Journey Across Cultural Frontiers | Marie Ashwin and Alan Hirst | 33 |
| A Fuzzy Logic System for Evaluating Quality of Management Institutions | Vijaya Bandyopadhyaya and Ranja Bandyopadhyaya | 42 |
| Business Systems Analysis as Research | Peter Bednar and Christine Welch | 51 |
| Plumbing the Depths: Research as a Developmental Tool | Patrick Bradbery | 59 |
| Researching Innovation in Teaching Methods for Business School Courses | Ann Brown and Martin Rich | 67 |
| The Five Ps of Mixed Methods Research | Roslyn Cameron | 76 |
| Inciting Advanced Levels of Practitioner Reflection Through Progressive Graphic Elicitation | Robert Campbell, Gillian Green and Mark Grimshaw | 84 |
| The Customer Satisfaction Process Oriented Model (CS-Pro Mod): a New Theoretical Approach to Measure Customer Satisfaction | Lucio Cappelli, Roberta Guglielmetti, Giovanni Mattia, Roberto Merli, Maria Francesca Renzi | 93 |
| A Design Science Approach to Development of the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT CMF) | Marian Carcary | 108 |
| Overcoming QCA Method’s Difficulties Thanks to the SC-QCA Protocol | Guillaume Chanson | 116 |
| Development of a Project Management Methodology for Use in a University-Industry Collaborative Research Environment | Christina May May Chin, Andrew Spowage and Eng Hwa Yap | 125 |
| Research Methodologies and Professional Practice: Considerations and Practicalities | Caroline Cole, Steven Chase, Oliver Couch and Murray Clark | 133 |
| The Benefits of Using Expert Interviews in the Development of Research | Helen Cripps | 140 |
| Mixed Methods in use; Experiences From Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches | Stefan Cronholm and Anders Hjalmarsson1 | 147 |
| Interwoven Quantitative and Qualitative Analytics in Management Research | Msoud Dedashti, Malek Elahi, Roberto Villarroel and Bridget Tang Qian Peng | 155 |
| Methodological Aspects of Assessing the Quality and Quantity of Corporate Environmental Reporting | Voicu Dan Dragomir | 162 |
| Cross-Cultural Management: Global Knowledge or Local Knowledge? | Jean-Pierre Dupuis | 171 |
| Visual Methodologies: Photo-Elicitation in the University Classroom | Stephen Fanning | 180 |
| Photos as Mirrors in Sport | Stephen Fanning, Madeleine Ogilvie, Maria Ryan, Kate Mizerski, Martin MacCarthy, and Helen Cripps | 189 |
| Pragmatism in a Research Design | Ji Gopal, Suman Bhakri, and Prakash Sharma | 198 |
| How Paradigmatic Lens Explain Variations in Drug Adoption Model | Dipanjan Goswami, Gour C Saha, Neera Jain, Anupama Chadha and Abir Goswami | 205 |
| The Determinants of Drug Adoption in India: A Study on Antihypertensive Drugs | Dipanjan Goswami, Gour C Saha, Neera Jain and Rubi Khan | 214 |
| Exploring the Effects of Identity-Based Trust: A Mediation Analysis | Imran Hameed, Ghulam Ali Arain, Olivier Roques and Jean Marie Peretti | 224 |
| The Impact of Cultural Dimensions on the Project Management Triple Constraint Model | Nicole Hargreaves and Lewis Endlar | 232 |
| The Viable System Model (VSM) and Qualitative Studies: A Research Perspective to Manage in a World of Complexity | Sandra Hildbrand and Shamim Bodhanya | 241 |
| Observing Dispersed Agile Project Processes | Robert Hughes | 249 |
| Demystifying the Arduous Doctoral Journey with an Eagle Vision of a Research Proposal in Jiffy | Rahinah Ibrahim | 256 |
| The Death of the Aspiration for High Performance Working, Post the Global Credit Crisis - Researching its Meaning in the Workplace | Diane Keeble-Ramsay and Andrew Armitage | 264 |
| Deletion, Distortion and Data Collection: The Application of the Neuro-Linguistic Progamming (NLP) Meta-Model in Qualitative Interviews | Jenny Knight | 271 |
| Writing Under Cover: Content Analysis of Nigerian 419 eMails | Deborah Knowles | 278 |
| The Problems of Teaching Research Methodology in a Middle Eastern Country: The Iranian Experience | Mortaza Kokabi | 285 |
| Real Life Learning by Doing and Experiencing: A Research Based Project to Investigate the Effectiveness of an Experiential Learning Model With Event Management Students | David Lamb | 291 |
| Conversation Analysis - an Analytic Perspective | Arminda Lopes | 301 |
| Conciliating Grounded Theory With Actor-Network Theory to Research Decision-Making Under Uncertainty | Eurico Lopes | 311 |
| Researching Australian gun Ownership; Respondents Never lie…or do They? | Martin MacCarthy | 320 |
| On the Promotion of the Utilisation of Research Findings by Graduate Students in Management Studies: A South African Perspective | Hendrik Marais, Magdalena Pienaar-Marais and Simon Gathua | 328 |
| A Critical Discussion on the Selection of a Data Collection Technique for an Interpretivist Grounded Theory Study: In-Depth Interviews vs. Focus Groups | Jorge Tiago Martins and Miguel Baptista Nunes | 339 |
| A Functional Measurement Approach to Cope with the Nonlinearity of Judgments in Marketing Research | Davide Massidda, David Polezzi and Giulio Vidotto | 348 |
| Postgraduate Research Methods Teaching and Variations in Undergraduate Background | Elisabeth Michielsens and Peter Urwin | 355 |
| A Proposed Mixed Methods Approach to eService Project Appraisals | Abbas Nandwani, Gary Bell and Jon Warwick | 367 |
| Replication Logic and Original Contribution to Body of Knowledge: Can the two Ever Meet, or Co-Exist? | Bongani Ngwenya | 377 |
| Postgraduate Business Research Methods: Facilitating Learning by Adapting Teaching Strategies to Match Learning Styles | Hester Nienaber | 386 |
| Faulty Results by Neglecting Mobile Service Usage Context | Susanne Niklas, Stephan Böhm and Stefan Strohmeier | 395 |
| Is There a Causal Relationship Between Construction Activity and the Portuguese Economy? An Econometric Empirical Application | Alcina Nunes, Jorge Lopes and Carlos Balsa | 402 |
| Evaluation of Dynamic Participation in Portuguese Active Employment Programmes | Alcina Nunes | 411 |
| The Granularity of Scale Response Categories: The use of a 21-Point Scale | Noel Pearse | 420 |
| Applying a Social Networking Approach to Solve Problems in Online Survey Research | Oluwarotimi Abayomi Randle | 430 |
| SMEs Experience of Collaboration and Their IT Maturity | Karsten Boye Rasmussen and Heiko Thimm | 435 |
| Balancing Guidance and Independence in Student Learning of Research Skills | Martin Rich | 445 |
| An Integrated Research Process Model: A Conceptualized and Contextualised Methodology for Interrogating Complex Technological Development Issues | Faith Samkange | 450 |
| Double Roles: Employer Organization Focused Research | Risto Säntti | 459 |
| Project Management Bodies of Knowledge; Conjectures and Refutations | Miles Shepherd and Roger Atkinson | 465 |
| Colour Coding: An Alternative to Analyse Empirical Data via Grounded Theory | Bernd Stottok, Martin Bergaus and Andrea Gorra | 472 |
| Student Reservation Price: How Much Will Prospective Students pay for Their Undergraduate Degrees? | Matthew Sutherland, Teresa Waring and Nigel Coates | 481 |
| Ethics in a Developing Country Context | Nicola Swan and Trevor Long | 490 |
| Project Organisation and the ‘Community of Practice’ Theory: Exploring the Connectivity | Jonathan Tanner and Gary Bell | 498 |
| An Exploration of Mobility Behaviours Using CHAID Analysis | Kaye Thorn, Kerr Inkson and Stuart Carr | 506 |
| Adaptation of the Spiral Model of Software Development to Business and Management Dissertations and Research Projects | Nathalia Tjandra and Geoffrey Darnton | 518 |
| Incorporating Design Science Research and Critical Research into an Introductory Business Research Methods Course | John Venable | 529 |
| Telephone Requests for Participation and Refusals: Reflections on Gaining Interview Access to Chinese Managers | Catherine Wang and Mark Saunders | 537 |
| Communities of Practice as a Vehicle for Research Into Business Improvement Practice | Christine Welch and Tammi Sinha | 547 |
| The Use of Case Study Research Methodology and Design in the Study of Information | George Onatu | 555 |
| PhD Papers | | 565 |
| Utilising Multiview as Framework: Enabling a Reflection on Software Development Practice | Dave Hagan | 567 |
| Characteristics Influencing International Students’ Information Search Behaviour and Satisfaction for a Private Higher Education Institution | Nurlida Ismail, Faridah Hj Hassan and Nooraini Mohamad Sheriff | 574 |
| Proposal to Explore the use of new Strategies to Create a Community Based Decision Making Process for Indigenous Peoples. | Gary Marchioro | 584 |
| Overcoming Major Changes in a Research Environment: A Study in Qatar’s Civil Service | Nasser Mohammed Al Khalifa and Pat Gray | 591 |
| From Aeronautical RCM Engineer to Reluctant Academic: A Reflection From Past to Practice to Praxis | Paul Moxey | 598 |
| Potential Technique for Capturing Building Design Tacit Knowledge to Decrease Cost and Time Overruns | Zohreh Pourzolfaghar, Rahinah Ibrahim, Rusli Abdullah and Nor Mariah Adam | 605 |
| Rumination to Reflection: The Quest to Re-Visit Entrepreneurial Learning | David Caton Roberts | 614 |
| Researching Sustainable Development of the Rural Poor in India | Nicola Swan | 621 |
| Using Photo-Elicitation to Explore Place Attachment in a Remote Setting | Joanna Tonge, Susan Moore, Maria Ryan and Lynnath Beckley | 629 |
| Guanxi and Networking in Social Network Theory: Culture and its Affect on Attitude | Dauw-Song Zhu, Yi-Kang Chen and Louis White | 638 |
| Conceptualizing and Designing a Qualitative Study: Insights From a Doctoral Study on Youth Livelihoods in Botswana | Molefe Coper Joseph | 647 |
| Work in Progress Papers | | 657 |
| Methodology for the Construction of a Research Problem on Management Process | Óscar Arias Londoño | 659 |
| Toward a Large Dams-Specific Project Management Framework | Omar Bentahar | 663 |
| Practical Considerations on Research Methods in Corporate Governance | Ovidiu-Niculae Bordean and Anca Borza | 668 |
| An Empirical Investigation of Relevance in Information Systems Research | Dan McAran | 672 |
| Methodology for Analysis and Modeling Risk in an Investment Project | José Vásquez Paniagua | 676 |
