An opportunity for researchers to reflect on their data gathering and analysis practices.

Over the past two decades the interest of management research toward developing countries and other challenging low-income settings has proliferated. The methodological foundations of management research however originate from developed countries, and arguably have limited relevance in underdeveloped regions. In such contexts, significant methodological difficulties related to data collection and analysis may rise from, for example, language and cultural barriers, questionnaire interpretation, unreliable statistical data, corruption and lack of freedom of speech. In practice, the work of a researcher is challenging due to safety issues, gaining access to interesting cases and the necessity of working with gatekeeper organizations.

On October 1-2, 2020 will take place an online workshop on conducting field research in methodologically challenging settings. The workshop will explore the methodological constraints common in impoverished regions, which are typically ignored, trivialized, misrepresented or deemed methodologically weak by mainstream management journals. The theme of this workshop is to develop rigorous methodologies in challenging settings for publication in leading journals. It will be a half day workshop on both days to accommodate for the different time zones the best way possible. The workshop will include keynote presentations from journal editors, round tables on methodological issues and paper development working sessions. The keynote speakers are Professor Charla Griffy-Brown (Editor-in-Chief, Technology in Society), Professor Wim Vanhaverbeke (Co-Editor-in-Chief, Technovation) and Professor Pablo Munoz, (Associate Editor, Journal of Business Venturing Insights). Participants can join as authors of a paper or as regular attendees. You can find more information here. The registration is open until August 20, 2020 here