This book explores common management practices as they relate to professional service organizations. Adopting a unique critical institutional view, it focuses on challenges and struggles in both public and private settings and offers new insights. This will be essential reading for scholars of management and leadership.
Offering a comprehensive overview of qualitative methods, this handbook serves as a valuable resource for students at various academic levels, from beginners in university courses to those working on Master's theses. It provides clear and concise answers to essential methodological questions, making it an accessible guide for understanding and applying qualitative research techniques.
What constitutes a good research problem?And how do you go about formulating one?Whereas the research problem is one of the key components of an academic thesis,formulating research problems has been surprisingly neglected in the literature on research methods.In this book,four different approaches to the formulation of research problems are presented: the gap approach,the grounded approach,the mystery approach,and the actor approach.The book provides an overview of the different approaches,highlights differences and similarities,and encourages experimentation in order to formulate creative and relevant research problems.