Producing Management Knowledge Research as practice [Paperback]

Providing readers with a unique insight into conducting research, this exciting book describes the thought and work processes of researchers as they complete their projects. Engaging and accessible it investigates all the key aspects of this topic and advice on how to conduct interviews, study the everyday life of an organization, and many other standard methods of conducting research. This is not a prescriptive methodology textbook, rather it explores how to approach, think and act in interaction with the empirical field.

Comprehensive and accessible, this thought-provoking text shows readers how to develop management investigations skills, and will be invaluable for final year undergraduates, masters and PhD students.

 1. Practice about a Practice  2. Issue-Driven Research  3. Inductive Knowledge Production  4. Studying Every Day Life  An Ethno-Methodology Approach  5. Analyzing Public Texts  Critical Discourse Analysis  6. Making Sense of Stockbrokers Performance  Reflections about a Phenomenographic Approach  7. Inside the School  An Ethnographic Approach Listening for Management  8. Interviews as Bridging Fields of Interest  9. Listening to General Managers  A Content Analysis of Life Stories  10. Proposal for Consulting Assignment  Quasi Experiments Among Management Consultants  11. Condensated Complexity  Analysis of Microprocesses Writing Management  12. Presenting the Unique as General and Valid Knowledge  The Logic of Case Studies  13. Viability and Diffusion of Management Practice  Longitudinal Studies  14. Understanding Differences - Comparative Studies across Managerial and Research Cultures  15. Writing as Reflexive Knowledge Production  Research as Intellectual Work Co-Producing Management 1 6. Organization Design as a Research Topic - Socio Technical Systems Analysis&l%