When research goes awry: getting back on the horse

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Two academics walked into a pub… One beer coaster-transcribed book proposal and a pre-existing publisher’s meeting later comes 33 tales of trial and tribulation from researchers across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Republic of Ireland, USA, Malaysia and Europe, in this collection from editors, Associate Professor Keith Townsend (WOW) and Professor Mark Saunders (University of […]

BAM! Best Paper at the 2015 British Academy of Management conference

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The Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) congratulatesAssociate Professor Keith Townsend, and co-author, Professor Mark Saunders (Surrey Business School, UK) who were awarded Best Paper in the Research Methodology track at the 2015 British Academy of Management (BAM) conference in September for their work – ‘An analysis of the number of interview participants in […]

Sufficient interview numbers: purpose, population and precedent counts

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Just how many qualitative interviews are required when undertaking research, and how do researchers managing these projects justify such a number? “Unsurprisingly”, said co-author and Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing guest, Professor Mark Saunders (Surrey Business School, UK; pictured left), during a 10 March seminar: “There is not a narrow number or norm!” With […]