Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism : a Practical Guide / edited by Paul K. Edwards, Joe O'Mahoney and Steve Vincent.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

The book provides a practical guide to the application of critical realism (CR), an increasingly popular philosophy of social science, in empirical research projects. Each purpose-written chapter reviews major social science research methods and contains extended illustration of how to conduct inquiry using CR.

Critical realism as an empirical project : a beginner's guide / Joe O'Mahoney and Steve Vincent -- Critical realism, research techniques, and research designs / Stephen Ackroyd and Jan Ch. Karlsson -- Employing a form of critical realist discourse analysis for identity research : an example from women's talk fo motherhood, childcare, and employment / Wendy Sims-Schouten and Sarah Riley -- Researching identity : a critical realist approach / Abigail Marks and Joe O'Mahoney -- Critical realism and grounded theory / Steve Kempster and Ken Parry -- Critical realism and interviewing subjects / Chris Smith and Tony Elger -- Critical realism and ethnography / Chris Rees and Mark Gatenby -- Critical realism and the organizational case study : a guide to discovering institutional mechanisms / Steve Vincent and Robert Wapshott -- Comparing cases / Ian Kessler and Stephen Bach -- Critical realism and international comparative case research / Ayse Saka-Helmhout -- Pulling the levers of agency : implementing critical realist action research / Monder Ram, Paul K. Edwards, Trevor Jones, Alex Kiselinchev, and Lovemore Muchenje -- History and documents in critical realism / Alistair Mutch -- Critical realism and mixed methods research : combining the extensive and intensive at multiple levels / Scott A. Hurrell -- Realist synthesis / Joanne Greenhalgh -- Probability and models / Malcolm Williams -- An appraisal of the contribution of critical realism to qualitative and quantitative research methodology : is dialectics the way forward? / Andrew Brown and John Michael Roberts -- Concluding comments / Paul K. Edwards, Steve Vincent, and Joe O'Mahoney.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide