UID:
almafu_9958331986602883
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 216 p.) :
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ill.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4462-3061-9
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0-85702-018-8
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1-280-37040-8
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9786610370405
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1-4129-3255-6
Content:
Understanding Management Research is an invaluable introduction for students and researchers of management who are confronting a new research project.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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?
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Chapter 8 - Conclusions - A More Reflexive Approach towards Management ResearchReferences; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7619-6918-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7619-6917-9
Language:
English
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