Johnson, Phil. <br/><br/>
Understanding Management Research :  An Introduction to epistemology / 
Phil Johnson and Joanne Duberley. 
 - London ;  Thousand Oaks :  SAGE Publications,  2000. 
 - vii, 216 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-209) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0761969187(pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Management--Research--Methodology.<br/>Industrial management--Research--Methodology.<br/>Knowledge, Theory of.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD30.4  / .J64 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.0072  / JOH