Understanding Management Research: An Introduction to EpistemologySAGE, 08/12/2000 - 216 من الصفحات 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. For researchers and students who are increasingly expected to adopt a reflexive understanding of their own epistemological position, the authors present a concise, accessible guide to the different perspectives available and their implications for research output. All students undertaking empirical research for theses and dissertations will find this book helps them com |
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Positivist Epistemology The Search for Foundations? | 11 |
Positivism The Management Mainstream? | 38 |
Conventionalist Epistemology The Socialization of Science? | 62 |
Postmodernist Epistemology Relativism Unleashed? | 91 |
Critical Theory and Management The Return | 115 |
Pragmatism and Critical Realism Transcending Descartes | 148 |
Conclusions A More Reflexive Approach towards | 177 |
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action alternative Alvesson and Willmott analysis approach argues assumptions behaviour Bhaskar Burrell causal chapter cognitive concepts consensus context conventionalist critical ethnography critical management studies critical realism critical theory critique cultural debate deconstruction deployed Descartes discourse dominant empirical empiricism entails epistemic reflexivity epistemological epistemological commitments ethnography evaluation example exist experience external reality focus Habermas Hence human ibid ideal speech situation implications incommensurability independent inductive instance interests internal validity interpretative Kuhn Kuhn's language-games logical positivism logical positivists London management research means metanarrative metaphors metaphysical metatheoretical methodology methods natural sciences neutral observational language notion objective ontology organizational organizations paradigm particular perspective Philosophy Popper position possible postmodern postmodernists practice pragmatic-critical realist pragmatism problems produce qualitative rational reject relationship relativism relativistic role Sage scientific scientists sense social sciences socially constructed structures subjectivist theorists theory of truth theory-neutral observational language thereby understanding validity variables warranted knowledge