Understanding management research : an introduction to epistemology / Phil Johnson and Joanne Duberley.
By: Johnson, Phil.
Contributor(s): Duberley, Joanne.
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TextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2000Description: vii, 216 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0761952950 (pbk.).Subject(s): Management -- School of Business and Education | Industrial management -- Research -- Methodology | Knowledge, Theory ofDDC classification: HD 30.4 .J64 2000 Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Kirinyaga University Library General Stacks | Non-fiction | HD 30.4 .J64 2000 (Browse shelf) | Available | KYU/2017/6016 | ||
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Kirinyaga University Library General Stacks | Non-fiction | HD 30.4 .J64 2000 (Browse shelf) | Available | KYU/2017/6017 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-209) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction - The Importance of Epistemology in -- Management Research -- 2 Positivist Epistemology - The Search for Foundations? -- 3 Positivism - The Management Mainstream? -- 4 Conventionalist Epistemology - The Socialization of Science? -- 5 Postmodernist Epistemology - Relativism Unleashed? -- 6 Critical Theory and Management - The Return to -- Rationalism and the Promise of Progress? -- 7 Pragmatism and Critical Realism - Transcending Descartes' -- Either/Or? -- 8 Conclusions - A More Reflexive Approach towards -- Management Research -- References -- Index.