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9780199288533

The Production of Knowledge The Challenge of Social Science Research

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199288533

  • ISBN10:

    0199288534

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-06-29
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Bill Starbuck has been one of the leading management researchers in the United States over several decades. In this book he reflects on a number of challenges associated with management and social science research--the search for a "behavioral science", the limits of rationality, the lack of reliability in many research findings, the social shaping of research agendas, cultures and judgements. It is an engaging, autobiographical account in which he discusses some of his own research and various methodological debates.

Author Biography


William H. Starbuck is ITT Professor of Creative Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Author of numerous articles on a wide-ranging set of issues relating to organizational behavior and strategy, he is also a former editor of Administrative Science Quarterly and co-editor of The Handbook of Organizational Design (with Paul Nystrom, OUP, 1981).

Table of Contents

List of Figures
vi
List of Tables
vii
Creating Better Social Science
1(4)
A Journey into Disillusionment---Discovering Problems
5(69)
Pretences of Research
74(21)
A Journey into Hope---Discovering Partial Solutions
95(47)
The Production of Knowledge
142(29)
References 171(18)
Index 189

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