Clark / Michailova Fieldwork in Transforming Societies

Understanding Methodology from Experience
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-230-52270-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Business & Management Collection

This book discusses the personal and professional challenges of conducting fieldwork in the difficult, sometimes threatening contexts of the transforming societies of post-socialist Europe and China. Field research is a distinctly human effort and the social relationships between researchers, third parties and respondents directly affect the quality of research findings. With unusual frankness, the authors share their personal field experiences and discuss both the imaginative strategies they have devised to cope with problems and the methodological lessons they have learned.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, E.

Michailova, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Doing Research in Transforming Contexts: Themes and Challenges; S.Michailova & E.Clark Identities, Roles and Qualitative Research in Central and Eastern Europe; T.Steger Who is Observing Whom? Fieldwork Roles and Ambiguities in Organisational Case Study Research; A.Soulsby Uncovering the Communist and Capitalist Shadow: Developing Relational Forms of Inquiry and Writing; K.Illes & B.Rees Constructing Enterprise Level Knowledge: Exploratory Methods and Transforming Contexts; A.Lorentzen Researching Organisations in Hungary: Practical Experience and Methodological Reflections; K.Balaton Transformation Research in East Germany: Institutions, Knowledge and Power; R.Alt & R.Lang Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Problems and Pitfalls in Researching Australian Expatriates in China; K.Hutchings Fieldwork in a Low-Trust (Post-)Communist Society; M.Nojonen

Über Autor(innen)

RAMONA ALT Associate Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
KÁROLY BALATON Professor of Management at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, Hungary
KATE HUTCHINGS Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
KATALIN ILLES Senior Lecturer, Researcher and Consultant in the Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
RAINHART LANG Professor in Organisation Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
ANNE LORENTZEN Associate Professor at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark
MATTI NOJONEN Research Fellow in the Department of Management at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland
BRONWEN REES Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Communications and Ethics at the Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
ANNA SOULSBY Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the University of Nottingham Business School, United Kingdom
THOMAS STEGER Assistant Professor of European Management at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany