Delving Deep

Paula O’Kane is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management, University of Otago, New Zealand.John R. Busenbark is the Mary Jo & Richard M. Kovacevich Associate Professor of Management & Organization in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.Aaron F. McKenny is an Assistant Professor at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.Sotirios Paroutis is Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK.

• Chapter 1. Building an Empirical Body of Evidence: Developing Rapport with Reviewers and Overcoming Skepticism in Strategic Management Research; Timothy J. QuigleyChapter 2. Philosophy and Management Research: A Crucial Yet Neglected Connection; Eric W. K. TsangChapter 3. The SMART Tool: Encouraging Standardized and Replicable Research in Management to Enhance Credibility; Andrew B. Blake, Oleg V. Petrenko, Timothy J. Quigley, Aaron D. Hill, and Amrit PandaChapter 4. How to Cross the Uncanny Valley: Developing Management Laboratory Studies Using Virtual Reality; Timothy D. Hubbard and Michael VillanoChapter 5. A Qualitative Researcher’s Journey: An Interview with Professor Dean A. Shepherd, Paula O'Kane and Sotirios Paroutis; Dean A. Shepherd, Paula O’Kane and Sotirios ParoutisChapter 6. Executive Personality Assessment with Large Language Models: Updating an Existing Tool and Advancing Similar Measures in Strategy and Management Research; Joseph S. Harrison, Steven Boivie, Timothy D. Hubbard, and Oleg V. Petrenko