This study addresses the following research question: what do we know about dynamic
capabilities based on existing empirical research? The paper is based on a systematic …

Purpose The discipline's most common uses for literature reviews—identifying gaps,
developing research agendas, and categorizing the literature—too often fail to challenge …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 RESEARCH QUALITATIVE METHODS in BUSINESS Page 3 SAGE
was founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable knowledge …

Whilst critical realism (CR) is becoming recognised as a significant meta-theory for the social
sciences, there is little guidance on how to produce research which is consistent with its …

Critical realism is emerging as a viable philosophical paradigm for conducting social
science research, and has been proposed as an alternative to the more prevalent …

Case study research is the most popular research method for researchers in industrial
marketing. However despite a number of attempts the problem of satisfactorily justifying the …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 REALIST RESEARCH DOING Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded
SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a …

The research on social discourse in societies, firms, and organizations written by
researchers working in fields such as Management, Corporate Governance, Accounting and …

There has been growing interest in a range of disciplines (Ackroyd and Fleetwood 2000;
Danermark et al. 2002; Fleetwood 1999; Fleetwood and Ackroyd 2004), not least information …

Critical management studies (CMS) offers a range of alternatives to mainstream
management theory with a view to radically transforming management practice. The …