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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786743703321

Titolo

Doing research in organizations / / edited by Alan Bryman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-93084-8

1-135-93077-5

0-203-38544-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Collana

Routledge Library Editions: Organizations: Theory & Behaviour ; ; Volume 4

Altri autori (Persone)

BrymanAlan

Disciplina

302.3/5/072

Soggetti

Organizational sociology - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1988 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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