Mats Alvesson, Dan Kärreman

Qualitative Research and Theory Development (eBook, ePUB)

Mystery as Method

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Encouraging readers to take a critical approach to empirical data, the authors provide an account that helps social science researchers to develop new and interesting theories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446259887
• Artikelnr.: 42154431

Autorenporträt

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bath, and also affiliated with Lund University, Stockholm School of Economics and Bayes Business School, City, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

The Use of Empirical Material for Theory Development
The Role of Constructions and Language in Empirical Research
Key Methodological Principles for Detecting Mysteries
A Methodology of Sorts for Theorizing from Empirical Material
Illustrating the Development and Resolution of Mysteries
Fieldwork Techniques and Mystery Creation
Research Guided or Assisted by Mystery?

Rezensionen

Mats Alvesson is masterful in showing us how to create new theories from grounded empirical materials. I highly recommend this book as a guide and reference on theory building
Andrew H. Van de Ven
Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota



Thank you Mats Alvesson for an altogether engaging, sophisticated, and inspiring account of the research process and its significance. With the emergence of a social constructionist view of science, questions concerning the function of research and theory have been paramount. In this highly readable volume, we are rewarded with a rich and practically useful resolution to these problems. This is no small undertaking, and I recommend the work with enthusiasm to both seasoned academics and beginning students
Professor Kenneth J. Gergen
Swarthmore College, US





Concise, informative, and provocative... Alvesson and Kärreman have not suggested abandoning qualitative research methods; they have instead offered a helpful book for when our ideas and methods break down into mysteries seeking as yet untried ideas and methods
The Qualitative Report





As these issues are at the core of the research process, they should be of interest to all researchers regardless of their discipline or stage in their career...I welcome the invitation to explore the extent to which, as a researcher, I have a personal need to place 'order and control' on to the topic areas that I research. I also welcome the authors' invitation to be more creative within the research process
Dr Nina Burrowes
Social Research Association News