1st Edition
Producing Management Knowledge Research as practice
1. Practice about a Practice 2. Issue-Driven Research 3. Inductive Knowledge Production 4. Studying Every Day Life – an Ethno-Methodology Approach 5. Analyzing Public Texts – Critical Discourse Analysis 6. Making Sense of Stockbrokers Performance – Reflections about a Phenomenographic Approach 7. Inside the school – an Ethnographic Approach Listening for Management 8. Interviews as Bridging Fields of Interest 9. Listening to General Managers – A content analysis of life stories 10. Proposal for Consulting Assignment – Quasi experiments among management consultants 11. Condensated Complexity – Analysis of microprocesses Writing Management 12. Presenting the Unique as General and Valid Knowledge – The Logic of Case Studies 13. Viability and Diffusion of Management Practice – Longitudinal Studies 14. Understanding Differences - Comparative Studies across Managerial and Research Cultures 15. Writing as Reflexive Knowledge Production – Research as intellectual work Co-producing Management 16. Organization Design as A Research Topic - Socio Technical Systems Analysis
Biography
Jan Löwstedt, Torbjörn Stjernberg
"The contributor's associations to the Stockholm School of Economics gives the book a Northern European perspective and a particular focus on qualitative methods...this book justifies a place on the bookshelf of any serious management researcher."
-- T Burgess, The Journal of Operational Research, 2007
'This book justifies a place on the bookshelf of any serious management researcher.' - Journal of Operational Research Society 2007
