The SAGE handbook of organizational research methods

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Author:

Buchanan, David A.

ISBN:

9781412931182

Publication Information:

Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2009.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 738 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

General Note:

Includes indexes.

Contents:

Pt.1. Dilemmas: the shifting context of organizational research -- Organizational research as alternative ways of attending to and talking about structures and activities -- Interpretivism in organizational research -- Critical methodology in management and organization research -- Research ethics: regulations and responsibilities -- Rhetoric and evidence: case of evidence-based management -- Pt.2. Agendas: the broadening focus of organizational research -- Leadership research: Traditions, developments, and current directions -- Debates, deliberations and disagreements on studying organization culture -- Doing power work -- Deinstitutionalization of institutional theory? Exploring divergent agendas in institutional research -- Methodological issues in researching institutional change -- Job satisfaction in organizational research -- Studying organizational population over time -- Aesthetics and art in qualitative mathods of organizational studies -- Feminist perspectives on gender in organizational research: what is and is yet to be -- Researching work and institutions through ethnographic documentaries.

Pt.3. Strategies: approaches to organizational research -- Craving for generality and small-N studies: Wittgensteinian approach towards the epistemology of the particular in organization and management studies -- Implications of research design options for the validity of inferences derived from organizational research -- Cross-cultural comparative studies and issues in international research collaboration -- Common method variance or measurement bias? Problem and possible solution -- Collaborative research: renewing action and governing science -- Grounded theory perspectives in organizational research -- Achival research in organizations in a digital age -- Studying processes in and around organizations -- Critical realism: philosophy, method, or philosophy in search of a method? -- Pt.4. Methods: data collection in organizational research -- Response rates and sample representativeness: identifying contextual response drivers -- Comparative case study designs: their utility and development in organizational research -- Conversation analysis in organizational research -- Interviews in organization research -- Mixed methods in organizational research -- Research designs for realist research -- Discourse analysis in organizational research: methods and debates.

Visual methods in organizational research -- Narrative and stories in organizational research: exploration of gendered politics in research methodology -- Ethography in organizational settings -- From modern times to Syriana: feature films as research data -- Measurement in the organizations sciences: conceptual and technological advances -- Making visible the hidden: research off-the books work -- Producing a systematic review -- Organizational autoethnography -- Pt.5. Future of organizational research.

Subject Term:

Organization -- Research -- Methodology.

Added Author:

Buchanan, David A.

Bryman, Alan.

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The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Research Methods provides a rich resource for organizational researchers, locating the technical aspects of organizational research in the wider context of the relevant personal, epistemological, theoretical, historical, ethical, and political issues.

Buchanan & Bryman have gathered together many of the world′s leading writers on theory, method and analysis in organizational research and have made this the most comprehensive and cutting-edge volume in this ever-growing field. The handbook aims to:

- Provide a comprehensive critical review of contemporary issues, debates, field practice, and trends across the domain of organizational research;

- Locate current thinking, debates, and methods in the history of organizational research;

- Identify trends, theories, and issues which have the potential to shape the underpinning epistemologies, theories and methodologies of future organizational research;

- Explore strategies for bridging the gap between researchers and those who are in a position to act on research findings to influence organizational practice

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Research Methods provides an impressively comprehensive critical review of contemporary issues, debates and trends across the domain of organizational research. It will be an indispensible reference work for all organizational researchers.