Richard A. Swanson and Elwood F. Holton, leading scholars in the field, bring together contributions from more than twenty distinguished researchers from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive introductory textbook on organizational research. Designed for use by professors and students in graduate-level programs in business, management, organizational leadership, and human resource development, Research in Organizations teaches how to apply a range of methodolgies to the study of organizations. This comprehensive guide covers the theoretical foundations of various research methods, shows how to apply those methods in organizational settings, and examines the ethical conduct of research. It provides a holistic perspective, embracing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methodology approaches and illuminating them through numerous illustrative examples.
This textbook provides first-hand, inside accounts of the process of doing research in organizations.
Tough Challenges for R & D Management . Ottawa , Ontario : The Conference Board of ... Chakrabarti , A. K. and A. H. Rubenstein ( 1976 ) . ... Intergroup conflict and conflict management in R & D divisions of four aerospace companies .
Applied social research is a resource as yet largely untapped by the very organizations that could most benefit from it. In order to discover the ways in which research can...
Yet this is often one of the most challenging, but also most interesting, aspects of a study.
Perspectives from organizational theory, social psychology, sociology and economics are brought together in this volume to provide a broad coverage of trust, including the psychological and social antecedents of trust.
In that spirit, many of the chapters in this book deal with methodologies that encourage organizational scientists to re-conceptualize phenomena of interest (e.g., experience sampling, catastrophe modeling), employ novel data collection ...
... Humphrey, S. E (2011). “Trait and Behavioral Theories of Leadership: An Integration and Meta-Analytic Test of Their Relative Validity,” Personnel Psychology, 64(1), 7–52 https://doi. org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2010.01201.x Bolman-Deal ...
This dramatic shift toward secularism may well be viewed as a story of institutional isomorphism (DiMaggio ... between the logics of religion and education: they were intertwined with the common purpose of human (and moral) development, ...
This book undertakes to develop a sector specific theory of governance of the public research sector and applies it to the German research system. The book is the outcome of a large interdisciplinary project.
Doing Research in Organizations