Preface.- Introduction.- Part 1 - Frameworks for Conceptualizing and Designing Research.- Chapter 1 - An Abductive Non-Linear Framework for Undertaking Conceptual and Empirical Research within a Critical Realist Perspective.- Chapter 2 - Abduction: Theory and Practice.- Chapter 3 - Understanding the Process of Empirical Business Studies: The Influence of Methodological Approaches.- Chapter 4 - The Palette of Different Literature Reviews.- Part 2 - Methods for Research Design and Information Capture.

- Chapter 5 - Using Workshops in Business Research: A Framework to Diagnose, Plan, Facilitate and Analyse Workshops.- Chapter 6 - Looking at Talking Pictures of Business Relationships: Images of Methodology .- Chapter 7 - Multiple Multi-Method Systematic Observation: Theory and Practice.- Chapter 8 - Interviewing Like a Researcher: The Powers of Paradigms.- Chapter 9 - The Use of Experiments in Business Studies.- Part 3 - Transformation, Analysis and Interpretation of Information.- Chapter 10 - Assessing Quality of Qualitative and Case Study Research.- Chapter 11 - Tangible Models of Business.

- Chapter 12 - Technological Advances in Communicating Research, Data Analysis and Displays .- Chapter 13 - Automated Semantic Analysis of Qualitative Marketing Data.- Part 4 - The Way Forward - Methods for Future Development of Research.- Chapter 14 - A Critical-Theoretical Approach to Studying Power Relations Through Vignettes.- Chapter 15 - Improvising in Research - Drawing on Theater Practices.- Chapter 16 - Agent-Based Simulation Models as a Research Method.