The issue of how to conduct high quality academic research in business and management studies
continues to exercise the minds of many of us in this community. There seems to be little convergence of views as to
how research should be conducted with new ideas and new approaches being continually added. And although this offers
us some challenges as teachers and supervisors it makes the whole task of working in this area a very rich experience.
Of course it is hard to keep abreast with all the new ideas entering this arena and The European Conference on
Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM 2005)offers an opportunity to keep in touch with some
of these issues.
