Understanding management research: an introduction to epistemology
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Beteilige Person: Johnson, Phil (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London SAGE Publications 2000
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [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?
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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 216 p.)
ISBN:0761969187
0857020188
1412932556
9780761969181
9780857020185
9781412932554