RESEARCH CONCEPTS FOR MANAGEMENT STUDIES

✍ Scribed by Alan Thomas

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

By its very nature, management is a multidisciplinary enterprise. Despite this, management research has tended to be organized around a number of discrete management disciplines with their own methodological outlooks. As a result, researchers in different fields often find it difficult to appreciate work outside their own area of specialization, so inhibiting much-needed collaboration across disciplinary boundaries. Management has emerged as a major area of research that has attracted students in growing numbers. However, there are still relatively few texts that are tailored specifically to the needs and interests of management researchers. Together with its companion volume, Research Skills for Management Studies (Routledge, 2003), this book offers management students a challenging but accessible introduction to research methods and concepts, irrespective of their field of specialization.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
1. What does it all mean?: Language, research and management studies......Page 21
2. Science and management studies......Page 39
3. Theory and management studies......Page 67
4. Data and management studies......Page 99
5. Validity and management studies......Page 131
6. Significance and management studies......Page 163
Notes......Page 192
Bibliography......Page 201
Index......Page 218