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Understanding management research : an introduction to epistemology / Phil Johnson and Joanne Duberley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Phil.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Management--Research--Methodology.
- Management.
- Industrial management--Research--Methodology.
- Industrial management.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 216 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2000.
- Summary:
- Understanding Management Research is an invaluable introduction for students and researchers of management who are confronting a new research project.
- Contents:
- 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?
- Chapter 8 - Conclusions - A More Reflexive Approach towards Management ResearchReferences; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-209) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610370405
- 9781446230619
- 1446230619
- 9780857020185
- 0857020188
- 9781280370403
- 1280370408
- 9781412932554
- 1412932556
- OCLC:
- 191036562
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