Corporate Social Responsibility
This individual assignment requires the written submission of a critical methodological review of
management research papers. The review involves the critical discussion of Business Management
Research Methods, including strategy, design, sampling and data collection and analysis
procedures.
You are required to search for and select a set of 10 journal articles that detail empirical research
Conducted on a very specific management topic. Students should select ONLY ONE of the
following topics (constructs), and articles should be published ***.
- Distributed Leadership
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Ethnic entrepreneurship
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Employee Engagement
- Intrapreneurship (This is my choice) **
- Female Leadership
- Management Students
- Lean Management
- Knowledge Sharing
- Neurodiversity (in the workplace)
- Islamic Management
- Virtual Working
- Cultural Intelligence
- Social media
Recommended Process - Select ONE construct from the above ***. Using Google Scholar, search for empirical papers in journal articles based on your studies. Ensure you only look for articles from the year 2000.
- Examine the Methodology and Methods section for each article.
- Write a critical methodological review of the articles across key themes and differences
- Ensure you:
a. Critically define the construct under review
b. Identify themes, differences and gaps in research methodology & methods including (but not limited to) research strategy, design, sampling, data collection and analysis methods
c. Critically evaluate the quality of methodology & method across the papers offering recommendations for improvements - Your critical methodological review must also include:
a. a meaningful introduction and conclusion.
b. paragraph critically describing your process of searching, filtering, comparing & contrasting the papers.
c. Citations throughout your work and a set of final references to at least the ten articles and your research methods textbook.
d. DOI hyperlinks to the 10 articles ? all should be available through Library