Understanding management research : an introduction to epistemology / Phil Johnson and Joanne Duberley.

By:

Johnson, Phil

Contributor(s):

Duberley, Joanne

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 216 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780857020185
0857020188
0761969187
9780761969181
9781412932554
1412932556
0761969179
9780761969174

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding management research.DDC classification:

658.0072 21

LOC classification:

HD30.4 .J64 2000eb

Other classification:

70.03
85.02

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- The Importance of Epistemology in Management Research; Chapter 2 -- Positivist Epistemology -- The Search for Foundations?; Chapter 3 -- Positivism -- The Management Mainstream?; Chapter 4 -- Conventionalist Epistemology -- The Socialization of Science?; Chapter 5 -- Postmodernist Epistemology -- Relativism Unleashed?; Chapter 6 -- Critical Theory and Management -- The Return of Rationalism and the Promise of Progress?; Chapter 7 -- Pragmatism and Critical Realism -- Transcending Descartes' Either/Or?

Summary: This is an invaluable introduction for all students and researchers of management confronting a new research project. Understanding Management Research provides an overview of the principal epistemological debates in social science and how these lead to and are expressed in different ways of conceiving and undertaking organizational research.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.

This is an invaluable introduction for all students and researchers of management confronting a new research project. Understanding Management Research provides an overview of the principal epistemological debates in social science and how these lead to and are expressed in different ways of conceiving and undertaking organizational research.

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