In this episode, I speak to Professor Mark NK Saunders (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/business/saunders-mark.aspx) from the Birmingham Business School. Mark has published widely on both research methods and Human resource management, and has authored books such as Research Methods for Business Students and Keeping your Doctorate on Track, and has publishes over 100 journal articles and book chapters. In this interview, we talk favourite research projects, how many interviews are enough in qualitative research, and some tips and tricks for getting research back on track when things start to go wrong.  

Selected publications discussed in this episode:

Townsend K and Saunders MNK (2018, editors) How to keep your research project on track: Insights from when things go wrong Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Saunders M and Lewis P (2018) Doing Research in Business and Management (2nd ed) Harlow: Pearson

Saunders MNK and Townsend K (2016) ‘Reporting and justifying the number of interviews participants in organisation and workplace research’ British Journal of Management 27.4, 836-852

Saunders MNK, Dietz G and Thornhill A (2014) Trust and distrust: polar opposites, or independent but co-existing? Human Relations 67.6 639-665