ISBN:
9780415822459
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (380 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Organizations
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Organizations Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Doing research in organizations
DDC:
302.35072
Keywords:
Brazil ; History ; 1763-1822
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This textbook provides first-hand, inside accounts of the process of doing research in organizations. It is intended both for students of research methods in sociology and social psychology, and for students of organization studies, organizational behaviour and management. The contributors tackle such problems as: gaining access to organizations, 'getting on' in organizations, quantitative and qualitative styles of investigation, the use of historical materials, the effects of resources on the context of research, the part played by political factors in organizational research, the relevanc
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 'Inside' Accounts and Social Research in Organizations; 1 Regulating Research: Politics and Decision Making in Industrial Organizations; 2 Insights on Site: Research into Construction Project Organizations; 3 Getting In, Getting On, Getting Out, and Getting Back; 4 Researching White Collar Organizations: Why Sociologists Should not Stop Doing Case Studies; 5 Historical Methods and Organization Analysis: The Case of a Naval Dockyard; 6 In Another Country
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Connoisseurship in the Study of Organizational Cultures8 The Aston Research Programme; 9 Ruminations on Munificence and Scarcity in Research; 10 Some Reflections Upon Research in Organizations; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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