The Production of Knowledge
The Challenge of Social Science Research
Seiten
2006
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-928853-3 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-928853-3 (ISBN)
Presenting an autobiographical account, this book discusses the author's research and various methodological debates. It reflects on various challenges associated with management and social science research such as the search for a 'behavioral science', the limits of rationality, the unreliability of research findings, and more.
Bill Starbuck has been one of the leading management researchers over several decades. In this book he reflects on a number of challenges associated with management and social science research - the search for a 'behavioral science', the limits of rationality, the unreliability of many research findings, the social shaping of research agendas, cultures and judgements. It is an engaging, chronologically structured account in which he discusses some of his own research projects and various methodological debates.
This is a feisty argument from someone who has been fully engaged with all aspects of research - carrying out research programmes, evaluating research, tirelessly questioning the assumptions and claims of social science research, and never avoiding the awkward theoretical or practical challenges that face organizational researchers.
Well written, provocative and unusual, this quasi autobiographical account will inform and entertain, and be a valuable guide to current and future research students.
Bill Starbuck has been one of the leading management researchers over several decades. In this book he reflects on a number of challenges associated with management and social science research - the search for a 'behavioral science', the limits of rationality, the unreliability of many research findings, the social shaping of research agendas, cultures and judgements. It is an engaging, chronologically structured account in which he discusses some of his own research projects and various methodological debates.
This is a feisty argument from someone who has been fully engaged with all aspects of research - carrying out research programmes, evaluating research, tirelessly questioning the assumptions and claims of social science research, and never avoiding the awkward theoretical or practical challenges that face organizational researchers.
Well written, provocative and unusual, this quasi autobiographical account will inform and entertain, and be a valuable guide to current and future research students.
William H. Starbuck is Professor in Residence, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon. Author of numerous articles on a wide-ranging set of issues relating to organizational behavior and strategy, he is also a former editor of Administrative Science Quarterly and co-editor of The Handbook of Organizational Design (with Paul Nystrom, OUP, 1981).
1. Creating Better Social Science ; 2. A Journey into Disillusionment: Discovering Problems ; 3. Pretences of Research ; 4. A Journey into Hope: Discovering Partial Solutions ; 5. The Production of Knowledge
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.4.2006 |
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Zusatzinfo | 6 tables, 19 figures |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 144 x 223 mm |
Gewicht | 367 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-928853-4 / 0199288534 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-928853-3 / 9780199288533 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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