An Introduction to Critical Research
Alternative Social Science Research Perspectives
Critical Overview of Quantitative and Conventional Qualitative
Methodology
The Critical Tradition
Critical Theory and Postmodernism
New Rules for Research
A Framework for Critical Research
Developing Critical Sensitivity in Management Research
On the Practice of Critical Management Research
Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at the
University of Bath, and also affiliated with Lund University,
Stockholm School of Economics and Bayes Business School, City,
University of London.
Stanley Deetz, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus and a President’s
Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His
research and professional practice has focused organizational
culture and change, micro-practices of power in organizations, and
designing interaction processes for collaborative decision-making.
Deetz is author/co-author of over 150 scholarly essays and several
books including Leading Organizations through Transitions, Doing
Critical Management Research, Managing Interpersonal Communication,
Transforming Communication-Transforming Business, and Democracy in
an Age of Corporate Colonization. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar
and is a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar
and an International Communication Association Past-President and
Fellow. He has lectured widely giving well over one hundred
visiting scholar and invited lectures in twenty-four countries.
`Alvesson and Deetz rehearse the arguments against neo-positivism and quantitative research very effectively… also make the important distinction between qualitative work in general and critical qualitative work in particular. The arguments here feel fresh and engaged, helped along by numerous illustrations and examples from particular research studies. …a welcome antidote to the majority of methodology books, especially in a climate where research - especially at doctoral level- is increasingly prone to standardization. The value of the book in this regard cannot be overestimated, because it draws together insights and arguments. …expect it to be widely read and cited, and to remain the standard text on critical management research practice for a good many years to come. This is an excellent text which combines a very impressive coverage of the literature while showing great care and thought in exposition ′ - Management Learning
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