Open Research across Disciplines

How the principles of open research can be applied to your discipline

Business and Management Studies

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Case Studies

University of Manchester case study: BIM (Building Information Modelling) based Construction Safety Risk Library

Examples of open research practices

“There are now thousands of examples of companies having used open government data as a key business asset that have been documented by the Open Data 500, the Open Data Impact Map, the ExploraLatam, and other studies. These projects have illustrated that companies use open government data for business optimisation, for developing new products and services, or for a combination of the two…Data collaboratives represent an emerging model of public–private partnership within which various actors across sectors exchange data and pool analytical expertise…Research partnerships [are an example of date collaboratives], in which corporations share data with universities and other research organisations to map weather patterns and natural resources, for example.”

(From https://www.stateofopendata.od4d.net/chapters/stakeholders/private-sector.html)

Resources

General Resources

Francisco, S.A. (2020). Open Science: Reflections on its Implications for Publishing Business Journals. Revista Administração Em Diálogo, 22. 1-7. Doi:10.23925/2178-0080.2020v22i3.50675
Martins, H.C. (2019). The importance of Open Science in Business research. RAC: Revista de Administraçāo Contemporânea.24(1). Doi: 10.1590/1982-7849rac2020190380
Blog about using open data in business. http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/how-can-open-data-benefit-business/

Open Methods

O’Boyle, E. H., Banks, G. C., & Gonzalez-Mulé, E. (2017). The Chrysalis Effect: How Ugly Initial Results Metamorphosize Into Beautiful Articles. Journal of Management, 43(2), 376-399. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206314527133

Open Data

Data management tools/software.
The value of open data in the private sector.
- https://www.stateofopendata.od4d.net/chapters/stakeholders/private-sector.html)
Business Administration resources (standards, databases, data policies) registered in FAIRsharing: https://fairsharing.org/browse/subject?term=Business%2520Administration

Open Outputs

Open access case studies.
- https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/the-sustainable-business-case-book

These pages are adapted and extended from: Farran, E. K., Silverstein, P., Ameen, A. A., Misheva, I., & Gilmore, C. (2020, December 15). Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines (2026 edition). https://osf.io/preprints/osf/3r8hb_v2