NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL
PRELIMINARY READING LIST FOR MSc IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS –
2008/09
Please consult your course structure enclosed and the individual module details shown
at:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/ma/mscprogrammes.html
SEMESTER ONE
N14B27 RESEARCH METHODS (MSc)
Essential Reading
Seale, C., Gobo, G., Gubrium, J.F. and Silverman, D. (2004) Qualitative Research
Practice. London: Sage.
Thorpe R and Holt R (2008) The Sage Dictionary of Qualitative Management Researcy.
London: Sage.
Silverman, D (2007) A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about
Qualitative Research. London: Sage.
Other useful texts:
Alvesson, M. & Deetz, S (2000) Doing Critical Management Research. London: Sage.
Brown, R.B. (2006) Doing Your Dissertation in Business and Management: The
Reality of Researching and Writing. London: Sage.
Cassell, C. & Symon, G. (2004) Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods in
Organizational Research, London, Sage.
Denzin, N.K. & Lincoln, Y.S. (2005) Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (Third
Edition). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Easterby-Smith, M., Thorpe, R. & Lowe, A. (2001) Management research 2nd ed.
London: Sage.
Moisander, J. & Valtonen, A. (2006) Qualitative Marketing Research: A cultural
approach. London: Sage.
Saunders, M., Lewis, P. & Thornhill, A. (2003) Research Methods for Business Students.
3rd ed. Harlow: Prentice Hall.
Both these books will be essential reading for the module
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N14B28 INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING
Glynn, J. Murphy, M. Perrin, J. and Abraham, A. (GMPA) (2003) Accounting for
Managers , (3rd ed). Thomson. (Core text)
Elliott, B. and Elliott, J. (2008), Financial Accounting and Reporting, (12th ed),
Prentice Hall, London.
Gernon, H. and Meek, G.K. 2001, Accounting: an international perspective, McgrawHill, London.
N14B29 MANAGING ORGANISATIONS (MSc)
Mullins, L. J. (2006) Essentials of organisational behaviour. FT Prentice Hall.
Wilson, F. M. (2004) Organizational behaviour and work: a critical introduction.
Oxford: OUP.
Grey, C. and Willmott, H. (2005) Critical management studies: a reader (edited).
Oxford: OUP.
Prasad, A. (2003) Postcolonial theory and organization analysis: a critical engagement
(edited). Palgrave Macmillan.
Prasad, P. et al (1997) Managing the organizational melting pot: dilemmas of
workplace diversity (edited). London: Sage.
Morishima, M. (1982) Why has Japan 'succeeded'? Western technology and Japanese
ethos. Cambridge: CUP.
Jacques, R. (1996) Manufacturing the employee: management knowledge from the
19th to 21st centuries. London: Sage.
Redding, S.G. (1990) The spirit of Chinese capitalism. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Brooke, T. and Luong, H.V. (2002) Culture and economy: the shaping of capitalism in
East Asia (edited). Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
N14B37 BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Pre-course reading
Lazear, E., "Economic Imperialism," Quarterly Journal of Economics 115:1 (February
2000): 99-146.
Downloadable from http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/lazear/Personal/downloads.html
The Undercover Economist (ISBN 0-19-518977-9) by Tim Harford published in 2006
by Little, Brown.
Core text
Begg, D and Ward (2004), D Economics for Business, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0077104293
McAleese, D (2004) Economics for Business 3/e, FT Prentice Hall,
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T14115 CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Reading List will be provided as part of the Module Outline given to you in the first
lecture.
V94004 COMPARATIVE CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION
Reading List will be provided as part of the Module Outline given to you in the first
lecture.
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