Czarniawska Social Science Research

From Field to Desk
1. 1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4739-0532-0
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, EPUB

This clear, straightforward textbook embraces the practical reality of actually doing fieldwork. It tackles the common problems faced by new researchers head on, offering sensible advice and instructive case studies from the author’s own experience.
Barbara Czarniawska takes us on a master class through the research process, encouraging us to revisit the various facets of the fieldwork research and helping us to reframe our own experiences. Combining a conversational style of writing with an impressive range of empirical examples she takes the reader from planning and designing research to collecting and analyzing data all the way to writing up and disseminating findings.  
This is a sophisticated introduction to a broad range of research methods and methodologies; it will be of great interest to anyone keen to revisit social research in the company of an expert guide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Czarniawska, Barbara

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What, why, and how?

Reviewing literature

Designing the study

Interviewing

Observation on the move: Shadowing

Following objects and quasi-objects

Tools for fieldwork

Surviving in the field: Practicalities and personalities

Excursions into the cyberspace

Analysing field material

Text analyses

Writing it up

Good academic writing: Beauty & credibility

When to stop, and what to do next

Über Autor(innen)

Czarniawska, Barbara
Barbara Czarniawska is Professor of Management Studies at GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Doctor honoris causa at Stockholm School of Economics, Copenhagen Business School and Helsinki School of Economics, she is a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Royal Engineering Academy, the Royal Society of Art and Sciences in Gothenburg and Societas Scientiarum Finnica. Czarniawska takes a feminist and constructionist perspective on organizing, recently exploring the connections between popular culture and practice of management, and the organization of the news production. She is interested in methodology, especially in techniques of fieldwork and in the application of narratology to organization studies.