Academic Research, Publishing and Writing

John Dumay is Professor of Accounting and Finance at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is co-author of Business Models: A Research Overview (2018), Interventionist research in accounting: a methodological approach (2021), Reframing mergers and acquisitions around stakeholder relationships: economic, political and social processes (2023), and Making sense of stakeholder management (2023).

• Chapter 1. Critical Thinking and the IDEALS FrameworkChapter 2. Becoming a Critical ScholarChapter 3. Developing a Publishing StrategyChapter 4. Undertaking a Critical Literature ReviewChapter 5. Designing Research for Reliability, Validity and GeneralisationsChapter 6. Writing Structure Using Reasoning and IDEALSChapter 7. Polishing the Diamond

This essential book for researchers, students and policymakers contains seven chapters from Professor John Dumay on developing critical research, writing, and publishing strategy. It is writing in a storytelling style using the author's experience as to how he developed the skills to be an excellent publisher of scholarly work in journal articles, book chapters, books, and the media. This book testifies that writing scholarly work is an art form to be experienced and learned.