From setting up the fieldwork to writing up the research, this volume takes readers through the narrative approach to qualitative research with a focus on organization studies. Inspired by the work of Bakhtin, Eco, Rorty and Silverman, the author demonstrates that narratives are still the main carriers of knowledge in all societies.
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I have taken Research Methods over and over again as an undergraduate and graduate student. I've read all of the "classics", but when I wanted to take a unique approach to my thesis research, I didn't think I could find something so suitable and unique. This author eloquently describes the pitfalls of over-referencing (too many citations cause the author to write nothing new and nothing of value). This approach to research is not focused on error-proofing research results. In fact, the focus in on telling a story. The author encourages readers to tell the whole story and to include the self, making the research admittedly subjective. For the first time I felt like I was able to use a very legitimate research method where I didn't have to spend most of my time anticipating potential weaknesses - instead I just got down to business in a way that felt relevant. Finally!
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William James (1890/1950) postulated that the world is accessible as a buzzing, pulsating, formless mass of signals, out of which people try to make sense, into which they attempt to introduce order, and from which they construct figures against a background that remains undifferentiated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
action net, organization studies, organization researchers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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William James (1890/1950) postulated that the world is accessible as a buzzing, pulsating, formless mass of signals, out of which people try to make sense, into which they attempt to introduce order, and from which they construct figures against a background that remains undifferentiated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
action net, organization studies, organization researchers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- A Cannibal in Manhattan by Tama Janowitz on page 23
- Semiotics and Fieldwork (Qualitative Research Methods) by Peter K. Manning in Back Matter
- Nice Work (King Penguin) by David Lodge on page 21
- Decline of Discourse by Ben Agger on page 56
- Doing Critical Ethnography (Qualitative Research Methods) by Jim Thomas in Back Matter
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- Social Research Methods: A Reader (Routledge Student Readers) by Clive Seale on page 333
- Organization and Identity (Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks) by Alison Linstead on page 103
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- Global and Organizational Discourse About Information Technology (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology) by Eleanor H. Wynn on page 435
- The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics (Routledge Companions) by Carmen Llamas in Back Matter
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