Fieldwork in Transforming Societies Understanding Methodology from Experience [Hardcover]

This book discusses the personal and professional challenges of conducting fieldwork in the difficult, sometimes threatening contexts of the transforming societies of post-socialist Europe and China. Field research is a distinctly human effort and the social relationships between researchers, third parties and respondents directly affect the quality of research findings. With unusual frankness, the authors share their personal field experiences and discuss both the imaginative strategies they have devised to cope with problems and the methodological lessons they have learned.Doing Research in Transforming Contexts: Themes and Challenges; S.Michailova & E.Clark Identities, Roles and Qualitative Research in Central and Eastern Europe; T.Steger Who is Observing Whom? Fieldwork Roles and Ambiguities in Organisational Case Study Research; A.Soulsby Uncovering the Communist and Capitalist Shadow: Developing Relational Forms of Inquiry and Writing; K.Illes & B.Rees Constructing Enterprise Level Knowledge: Exploratory Methods and Transforming Contexts; A.Lorentzen Researching Organisations in Hungary: Practical Experience and Methodological Reflections; K.Balaton Transformation Research in East Germany: Institutions, Knowledge and Power; R.Alt & R.Lang Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Problems and Pitfalls in Researching Australian Expatriates in China; K.Hutchings Fieldwork in a Low-Trust (Post-)Communist Society; M.NojonenRAMONA ALT Associate Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology, GermanyK?ROLY BALATON Professor of Management at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, HungaryKATE HUTCHINGS Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaKATALIN ILLES Senior Lecturer, Researcher and Consultant in the Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, United KingdomRAINHART LANG Professor in Organisation Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germal$