ISBN:
0191643408
,
1306512980
,
9780191643408
,
9781306512985
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 376 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Edwards, Paul K Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism
DDC:
302.4
Keywords:
Organizational behavior
;
Critical realism
;
Organizational behavior
;
PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
;
Critical realism
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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