TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Phil
AU  - Duberley,Joanne
TI  - Understanding management research: an introduction to epistemology 
SN  - 9780857020185
AV  - HD30.4 .J64 2000eb
U1  - 658.0072 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, Thousand Oaks
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Management
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Knowledge
KW  - Research Design
KW  - Gestion
KW  - Recherche
KW  - Méthodologie
KW  - Gestion d'entreprise
KW  - Théorie de la connaissance
KW  - epistemology
KW  - aat
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Training
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - gtt
KW  - Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek
KW  - Kennistheorie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index; 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?
N2  - 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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