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Constructing Research Questions: Doing Interesting Research
Mats Alvesson
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Description for Constructing Research Questions: Doing Interesting Research
Paperback. The authors develop a methodology for identifying and challenging assumptions underlying existing theories and generating research questions, using examples from across the social sciences. Num Pages: 152 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 179 x 8. Weight in Grams: 236.
All researchers want to produce interesting and influential theories. A key step in all theory development is formulating innovative research questions that will result in interesting and significant research. Traditional textbooks on research methods tend to ignore, or gloss over, actual ways of constructing research questions. In this text, Alvesson and Sandberg develop a problematization methodology for identifying and challenging the assumptions underlying existing theories and for generating research questions that can lead to more interesting and influential theories, using examples from across the social sciences. Established methods of generating research questions ... Read more
All researchers want to produce interesting and influential theories. A key step in all theory development is formulating innovative research questions that will result in interesting and significant research. Traditional textbooks on research methods tend to ignore, or gloss over, actual ways of constructing research questions. In this text, Alvesson and Sandberg develop a problematization methodology for identifying and challenging the assumptions underlying existing theories and for generating research questions that can lead to more interesting and influential theories, using examples from across the social sciences. Established methods of generating research questions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781446255933
SKU
V9781446255933
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About Mats Alvesson
Mats Alvesson holds a chair in the Business Administration department at Lund University in Sweden and is also part-time professor at University of Queensland Business School. He has done extensive research and published widely in the areas of qualitative and reflexive methodology, critical theory, organizational culture, knowledge work, identity in organizations, gender, organizational change, management consultancy etc. He has published ... Read more
Reviews for Constructing Research Questions: Doing Interesting Research
This book is not for the faint hearted. It will appeal to those who already have some experience of research, or those at postgraduate level formulating their ideas for study. It will stimulate new ways of thinking about the design of research, something that is well overdue. Even if the problematization methodology and the frameworks the authors propose are not ... Read more