Instructor Resources Jaspersen et al., Management and Business Research, 8e SAGE Publishing, 2026
Answers to exercises in the book Note to readers This companion document provides model answers, illustrative guidance and instructor notes for selected exercises from the textbook. The purpose is to support teaching and learning by offering examples of the kinds of responses or discussions that might emerge in class, rather than to prescribe a single correct answer. Not all exercises lend themselves to written solutions. Many tasks in the book are intentionally designed as reflective activities, project-based explorations or open classroom discussions. For these, there can be no single „model‟ response, and the value lies in the process of inquiry, dialogue and personal interpretation. Accordingly, only exercises where a representative or instructive answer can reasonably be provided are included below. Instructors are encouraged to adapt, expand or localise these examples to suit their own teaching context and the specific projects undertaken by their students.
Chapter 1: Finding your feet in management and business research 1.1 Thinking about management and business research 3. Write a paragraph on why it is important that business and management research is conducted in different countries and settings. Discuss where we still encounter colonial assumptions in our concepts and theories (such as e.g. in modernisation or leadership theories), what this means, and what we can do to address this. Conducting business and management research across diverse countries and settings matters because concepts, measures and prescriptions are never context-free. Many foundational ideas – such as modernisation, leadership „universals‟ or efficiency logics –