TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Phil
AU  - Duberley,Joanne
TI  - Understanding Management Research: An Introduction to epistemology 
SN  - 0761969187(pbk.)
AV  - HD30.4 .J64 2000
U1  - 658.0072 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, Thousand Oaks
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Management
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
N1  - 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
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ER  -