Overview -- Preparing for Academic Career -- Research Foundations -- Planning Research Projects -- Conceptual Framework and Theory Development -- Research Approaches and Designs -- Research Settings and Procedures -- Literature Reviews -- Cross-Cultural Research -- Writing Manuscripts for Academic Journals -- Evaluating, Accepting and Rejecting Manuscripts -- Ethics in Research -- Research Over the Course of Academic Life: Goals, Strategies, and Tactics -- Writing Proposals -- Epilogue.

This book provides doctoral students, junior faculty and early-career researchers with guidelines, resources and strategies for performing and publishing academic research successfully. It helps increase the productivity of researchers by showing efficient and effective ways to increase research output and publication probability, ranging from manuscript preparation and positioning to working with co-authors and journal reviewers. The author uses research findings, anecdotal evidence and illustrations from his academic career to support his views on strategies and tactics that are required of scholars in order to succeed.