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Engaged Scholarship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Engaged Scholarship

A guide for organizational and social research in business studies and the social sciences, providing a clear framework for research design and methodology. It will be an invaluable tool for academics, researchers, and graduate students across the social sciences concerned with rigorous and relevant research in the contemporary world.

The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers
  • Language: en

The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 19??
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Organizational Change and Innovation Processes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Organizational Change and Innovation Processes

In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. The authors are a group of highly regarded experts who have been doing collaborative research on change and development for many years.

Measuring and Assessing Organizations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 594

Measuring and Assessing Organizations

Manual on measurement and improvement of work organization and job design - includes a bibliography pp. 522 to 542.

Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 446

Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation

In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. The authors are a group of highly regarded experts who have been doing collaborative research on change and development for many years.

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 961

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation

Presents cutting-edge theories and research from leading scholars on how to understand and manage organization change initiatives. Advances our understanding of change and innovation by establishing connections among theories from different fields and research traditions and by introducing new lines of inquiry. Organized around major models of organizational change to examine specific process theories and explore important extensions to these theories that have emerged over the past 25 years

Research on the Management of Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 751

Research on the Management of Innovation

This is a reprint of a classic work of research on innovation first published in 1989. Resulting from the Minnesota Innovation Research Program (MIRP), the book includes a revised and expanded Preface and will complement the three other books growing out of the program, all published by Oxford--The Innovation Journey (1999), Organizational Change Processes: Theory and Methods for Research (2000), and Handbook of Organizational Change and Development (coming 2001).

The Innovation Journey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

The Innovation Journey

This book examines the results of a major study of innovation in organizations, calling into question most of the explanations of the innovation process that have been proposed in the past. The authors find that the innovation process is neither sequential and orderly, nor is it a matter of random trial-and-error; rather it is best characterized as a nonlinear dynamics system. They explain that the innovation journey involves motivating and coordinating people to develop and implement ideas by engaging in transactions with others while making the adaptations needed to achieve desired outcomes within changing organizational contexts.

Longitudinal Field Research Methods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Longitudinal Field Research Methods

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995-08-02
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Eleven papers, some of which have appeared previously as contributions to the journal Organizational Science , emphasize a range of methodological issues involved in longitudinal field research, including ethnographic methods, longitudinal and comparative case studies, event history analysis, and real-time tracking of events, as well as procedural.

Useful Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 16

Useful Research

Features a who's who of leading management scholars Takes a stand on a major controversy in academia: should organizational research aspire to be relevant to practitioners? A sequel to the seminal book, Doing Research That is Useful for Theory and Practice, also edited by Ed Lawler, Susan Mohrman, and Associates For decades there has been an ongoing, at times heated, debate over how relevant to real-world organizational concerns academic organizational research should be. The contributors to this book argue that in order to keep organizational research relevant to both theory and practice, research must deviate from the orthodoxy of traditional positivistic research. The true test of whether...