| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 376 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The book provides a practical guide to the application of critical realism (CR), an increasingly popular philosophy of social science, in empirical research projects. Each purpose-written chapter reviews major social science research methods and contains extended illustration of how to conduct inquiry using CR. |
| Contents |
Critical realism as an empirical project : a beginner's guide / Joe O'Mahoney and Steve Vincent -- Critical realism, research techniques, and research designs / Stephen Ackroyd and Jan Ch. Karlsson -- Employing a form of critical realist discourse analysis for identity research : an example from women's talk fo motherhood, childcare, and employment / Wendy Sims-Schouten and Sarah Riley -- Researching identity : a critical realist approach / Abigail Marks and Joe O'Mahoney -- Critical realism and grounded theory / Steve Kempster and Ken Parry -- Critical realism and interviewing subjects / Chris Smith and Tony Elger -- Critical realism and ethnography / Chris Rees and Mark Gatenby -- Critical realism and the organizational case study : a guide to discovering institutional mechanisms / Steve Vincent and Robert Wapshott -- Comparing cases / Ian Kessler and Stephen Bach -- Critical realism and international comparative case research / Ayse Saka-Helmhout -- Pulling the levers of agency : implementing critical realist action research / Monder Ram, Paul K. Edwards, Trevor Jones, Alex Kiselinchev, and Lovemore Muchenje -- History and documents in critical realism / Alistair Mutch -- Critical realism and mixed methods research : combining the extensive and intensive at multiple levels / Scott A. Hurrell -- Realist synthesis / Joanne Greenhalgh -- Probability and models / Malcolm Williams -- An appraisal of the contribution of critical realism to qualitative and quantitative research methodology : is dialectics the way forward? / Andrew Brown and John Michael Roberts -- Concluding comments / Paul K. Edwards, Steve Vincent, and Joe O'Mahoney. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Organizational behavior.
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Organizational behavior. |
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Critical realism.
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Critical realism. |
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Edwards, Paul K.
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O'Mahoney, Joe.
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Vincent, Steve, 1954-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Edwards, Paul K. Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism. Oxford Scholarship Online 2014 1306512980 |
| ISBN |
9780191643408 (electronic book) |
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0191643408 (electronic book) |
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9781306512985 (electronic book) |
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1306512980 (electronic book) |
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9780191771637 |
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0191771635 |
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9780199665532 |
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9780199665525 |
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0199665524 (hardback) |
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0199665532 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
60001902621 |
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40023929659 |
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