TY - BOOK AU - Buchanan, David A. : (Editor) AU - Bryman, Alan : (Editor) TI - The SAGE handbook of organizational research methods SN - 9781412931182 U1 - 001.42 PY - 2009/// CY - Los Angeles : PB - SAGE, KW - Organizational behavior - Research - Methodology. KW - Company policy. KW - Management techniques. KW - Business organization. KW - Methodology N1 - Included Index; The organizational research context : properties and implications David A. Buchanan and Alan Bryman -- Dilemmas : the shifting context of organizational research. Organizational research as alternative ways of attending to and talking about structures and activities / Stanley Deetz ; Interpretivism in organizational research : on elephants and blind researchers / Dvora Yanow and Sierk Ybema ; Critical methodology in management and organization research / Mats Alvesson and Karen Lee Ashcraft ; Research ethics : regulations and responsibilities / Emma Bell and Edward Wray-Bliss ; Rhetoric and evidence : the case of evidence-based management / Mark Learmonth -- Agendas : the broadening focus of organizational research. Leadership research : traditions, developments, and current directions / Michael D. Mumford [and others] -- Endless crossroads : debates, deliberations and disagreements on studying organizational culture / Pushkala Prasad and Anshuman Prasad ; Doing power work / Stewart Clegg ; The deinstitutionalization of institutional theory : exploring divergent agendas in institutional research / Robert J. David and Alex B. Bitektine ; Methodological issues in researching institutional change / Roy Suddaby and Royston Greenwood ; Job satisfaction in organizational research / Alannah E. Rafferty and Mark A. Griffin ; Studying organizational populations over time / Glenn R. Carroll [and others] ; 'Do you do beautiful things?' : Aesthetics and art in qualitative methods of organization studies / Antonio Strati ; Feminist perspectives on gender in organizational research : what is and is yet to be / Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich ; Researching work and institutions through ethnographic documentaries -- Strategies : approaches to organizational research. Craving for generality and small-N studies : a Wittgensteinian approach towards the epistemology of the particular in organization and management studies / Haridimos Tsoukas ; Implications of research design options for the validity of inferences derived from organizational research / Eugene F. Stone-Romero ; Cross-cultural comparative studies and issues in international research collaboration / Mark F. Peterson ; Common method variance or measurement bias? The problem and possible solutions / Paul E. Spector and Michael T. Brannick ; Collaborative research : renewing action and governing science / Jean-Louis Denis and Pascale Lehoux ; Grounded theory perspectives in organizational research / Christina Goulding ; Archival research in organizations in a digital age / Michael Moss ; Studying processes in and around organizations / Ann Langley ; Critical realism : philosophy, method, or philosophy in search of a method? Michael I. Reed -- Methods : data collection in organizational research. Response rates and sample representativeness : identifying contextual response drivers / Timothy R. Hinkin and Brooks C. Holtom ; Comparative case study designs : their utility and development in organizational research / Louise Fitzgerald and Sue Dopson ; Conversation analysis in organizational research / David Greatbatch ; Interviews in organizational research / Catherine Cassell ; Mixed methods in organizational research / Alan Bryman ; Research designs for realist research / Stephen Ackroyd ; Discourse analysis in organizational research : methods and debates / Nelson Phillips and MariaLaura Di Domenico ; Visual methods in organizational research / Samantha Warren ; Narrative and stories in organizational research : An exploration of gendered politics in research methodology / Carl Rhodes and Alison Pullen ; Ethnography in organizational settings / Gary Alan Fine, Calvin Morrill, and Sharmi Surianarain ; From Modern Times to Syriana : feature films as research data / John S. Hassard and David A. Buchanan ; Measurement in the organizational science : conceptual and technological advances / Charles A. Scherbaum and Adam W. Meade ; Making visible the hidden : researching off-the-books work / Colin C. Williams and Monder Ram ; Producing a systematic review / David Denyer and David Tranfield ; Organizational autoethnography / ken Parry and Maree Boyle -- Conclusion : the future of organizational research. The present and future of organizational research / Alan Bryman and David A. Buchanan N2 - This handbook provides a rich resource for researchers, locating the technical aspects of organizational research in the wider context of the relevant personal, epistemological, theoretical, historical, ethical and political issues ER -