A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Research
- Emma Bell - Open University, UK
- Richard Thorpe - University of Leeds, UK
In Management Research the authors provide a stimulating and critical overview of the key theoretical debates on research paradigms and methodologies, demystifying the process and providing invaluable insights into the politics and practice of research.
Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.
Suitable for students carrying out Undergraduate and Postgraduate dissertations, MBA projects and PHD theses.
A rather good book with a different approach
Really good support text - helps to generate a good level of critical thinking
Great little book that provides students with an easy introduction to research methods. I am recommending it as core reading for undergraduate students undertaking the dissertation module, especially those without prior research training.
As with other texts in this series, this book provides a clear, informed and very readable coverage of its subject matter - management research. Lively in style, the authors do a great job in covering key theoretical and practical aspects of the subject. Students will find this a useful and very readable text.
This looks like a great little book. I think the title is overly modest as it provides a very good account of issues that students struggle to understand when they meet them in longer and more expensive texts.
A useful book that some students carrying out their fianl year projects will find very useful and they will be directed to it.
Useful introductory text for managers studying research for the first time
Nice, additional material for Clegg et al. 2011. - reflecting on some issue in organizational research in more detail. Refreshing!
Interesting book, however contents were quite different from what I expected.
Sage College Publishing
