Doing Research in Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

Download or read book Doing Research in Organizations (RLE: Organizations) written by Alan Bryman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides first-hand, inside accounts of the process of doing research in organizations. It is intended both for students of research methods in sociology and social psychology, and for students of organization studies, organizational behaviour and management. The contributors tackle such problems as: gaining access to organizations, ‘getting on’ in organizations, quantitative and qualitative styles of investigation, the use of historical materials, the effects of resources on the context of research, the part played by political factors in organizational research, the relevance of grounded theory and conducting research within a cross-cultural framework.