Management Research: An Introduction (SAGE series in Management Research) - Softcover

Easterby-Smith, Mark; Thorpe, Richard; Lowe, Andy

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9780803983939: Management Research: An Introduction (SAGE series in Management Research)

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ISBN 10: 080398393X ISBN 13: 9780803983939

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1991

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Written specifically for management students and others wishing to do research in management, this textbook is a highly accessible introduction to the practice and principles of management research.

The authors consider the particular characteristics of research in management and the factors likely to lead to successful research outcomes, including the personal qualities of the researcher. They examine the philosophical assumptions underpinning research design and the choice of different methodologies, and address the political and ethical dimensions of management research. The book also takes the reader through the `basic′ practicalities of undertaking a research project, from planning through to presentation of findings.

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About the Author:

Mark Easterby-Smith is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Lancaster. His field is organizational learning. He has a first degree in Engineering Science and a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Durham University and has been an active researcher for over 30 years with primary interests in methodology and learning processes. He has carried out evaluation studies in many European companies, and has led research projects on management development, organizational learning, dynamic capabilities and knowledge transfer across international organizations in the UK, India and China.

Review:

`A central feature of the book is an excellent resume of the most appropriate philosophical position from which methods should be derived′ - Management Centre Doctoral Journal

`I will be recommending the book to graduate researchers at master′s and doctoral level. It is a book which deserves to succeed for its honesty, clarity, and common sense′ - Leadership and Organizational Development Journal

`Quantitative methods are reviewed in a way which even the non-numerative could understand; the chapter on finishing and writing up research contains several ideas, including mind-mapping, worthy of a more extended treatment. An accessible relaxed style enables the authors to deal with issues that are intellectually demanding and at times controversial, encouraging the researcher to develop a self-reflexive capacity to manage research as both personal and public learning′ - Management Education and Development Journal

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