Business and Management Research Methodologies

2. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4129-1222-8
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 2464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 4423 g

Reihe: SAGE Library in Business and Management

These 120 articles have been carefully selected to capture the current methodological variations in business and management research and to highlight the important philosophical assumptions that underpin these variances.

Seminal articles from leading thinkers are drawn together under the umbrella of six key areas and provide a revealing road map through the field of business and management research.

Volume 1 considers different philosophical stances and their methodological implications, Volumes 2 to 5 look at the broad spectrum of research approaches; such as positivism, Neo-Empiricism, the combination of qualitative and quantative Methodologies and social constructionist approaches. Volume 6 explores the challenges associated with trying to evaluate the quality of business and management research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Phil

Clark, Murray

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME ONE: RECENT METHODOLOGICAL DEBATES AND DISPUTES IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Mapping the Terrain - P Johnson and M Clark
An Overview of Business and Management Research Methodologies
Intellectual, Ideological and Political Obstacles to the Advancement of Organizational Science - R Hogan and R Sinclair
The Scientific Status of Management Research as a Practically Oriented Social Science - R Whitely
Barriers to the Advancement of Organization Science - J Pfeffer
Paradigm Development as a Dependent Variable
Style as Theory - J Van Maanen
The Case for the Natural Science Model for Research in Organizational Behaviour and Organization Theory - O Behling
The Case for Qualitative Research - G Morgan and L Smircich
The Nature of a Paradigm - M Masterman
Multiple Paradigms and Organizational Analysis - J Hassard
A Case Study
In Defence of Paradigm Incommensurability - N Jackson and P Carter
Breaking the Paradigm Mentality - H Willmott
Multi-Paradigm Perspectives on Theory-Building - D A Gioia and E Pitre
Empirical Research in Accounting - R Laughlin
Alternative Approaches and a Case for 'Middle-Range' Thinking
Changing Spaces - D Knights
The Disruptive Impact of a New Epistemological Location for the Study of Management
Re-Cognizing the Other - H Willmott
Reflections of a New Sensibility in Social and Organization Studies
Relativity without Relativism - C Hardy and S Clegg
Reflexivity in Post-Paradigm Organization Studies
Reflexivity in Management Research - P Johnson and J Duberley
A Critique of Postmodernism in Organization Studies - L Donaldson
Postmodernism and Management - Pros, Cons and the Alternative
VOLUME TWO: POSITIVSIM: DEDUCTIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
PART ONE: THE TRUE OR CLASSICAL EXPERIMENTAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Influence Tactics, Affect and Exchange Quality in Supervisor-Subordinate Interactions - S J Wayne and G R Ferris
A Laboratory Experiment and Field Study
The Hawthorne Effect - J G Adair
A Reconsideration of the Methodological Artifact
PART TWO: QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
The Effects of Job Enrichment on Employee Satisfaction, Motivation, Involvement and Performance - C Orpen
A Field Experiment
The Outcomes of Autonomous Workgroups - T D Wall et al
A Long-Term Field Experiment
PART THREE: DEDUCTIVE FORMS OF ACTION RESEARCH IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
Action Research and Minority Problems - K Lewin
Action Research - A Warmington
Its Methods and Its Implications
Action Research and Scientific Method - H Arguinis
Presumed Discrepancies and Actual Similarities
PART FOUR: KEY ISSUES IN MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS

Improving Construct Measurement in Management Research - C Schriesheim et al
Comments and a Quantitative Approach for Assessing the Theoretical Content Adequacy of Paper and Pencil-Type Survey Instruments
Attitude Measurement - A McKennell
Use of Co-Efficient Alpha with Cluster or Factor Analysis
A Primer on Internet Organizational Surveys - Z Simsek and J F Veiga
PART FIVE: TYPES OF SURVEY RESEARCH
Descriptive Surveys
Employee Surveys - J Hartley
Strategic Aid or Hand-Grenade for Organizational and Cultural Change?
Analytical Surveys
The Influence of Organization Structure on the Utility of an Entrepreneurial Top Management Style - J B Covin and D P Slevin
Relationships of Perceptions of Organizational Climate to Organizational Structure, Context and Hierarchical Position - R L Payne and R Mansfield
Development of the Job Diagnostic Survey - J R Hackman and G R Oldham
Structured Observation - G D Jenkins, D A Nader, EE E Lawler and C Cammann
Standardized Observations - G D Jenkins et al
An Approach to Measuring the Nature of Jobs
Structured Observations - M J Martinko and W L Gardner
An Approach to Measuring the Nature of Jobs
Longitudinal Surveys
Survivor Reactions to Organizational Downsizing - T D Allen et al
Does Time Ease the Pain?

Über Autor(innen)

Johnson, Phil
In recent years Phil has participated in the generation and management of over £420, 000 of research funding, over £330,000 of which was provided by EPSRC and ESRC. Involved in much of this research have been local public and private sector organizations as sponsors of research and as research sites for both data collection and for change-management interventions. This research has concerned a range of issues including: management control; corporate governance; contractor-client relations; evolving management roles. Recently Phil has engaged in ESRC sponsored research into "Benchmarking Good Practice in Qualitative Management Research" which is part of the ESRC Research Methodology Programme. Currently Phil is a referee for a number of academic journals and reviews book proposals for several major academic publishers. He has also been a guest editor for the journal Management Decision and has recently been appointed as Associate Editor for a new international journal, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. Phil's education includes: BA (Hons) Sociology (Sheffield); MSc Organization Development (CNAA); MSc Advance Educational and Social Research Methods (Open University); PhD Management and Organization (CNAA).