REVIEW ESSAY STUDIES ON TRANSITIONS: MEANINGS AND METHOD
作者:
Ken Starkey,
期刊:
Journal of Management Studies
(WILEY Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 27,
issue 1
页码: 97-110
ISSN:0022-2380
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1990.tb00755.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTThis article analyses the link between research methodology and knowledge generation. It argues that the selection of a method of data collection and analysis determines the potential boundaries and depth of knowledge that can be generated. Choice of methodology, therefore, has major constraining or liberating potential. This is illustrated in an examination of three recent texts on transition. The first of these adopts an occupational psychology approach based on large‐scale surveys. It is argued that this approach runs the risk of ignoring key existential issues. The two other texts analysed are a clinical psychology approach to the major transitions in work and power occasioned by the introduction of new information technologies, and a novel examining key transition episodes in the ‘lives’ of its main protagonists. These two texts, it is suggested, provide an extremely rich source of data and are a pleasure to read. The article ends with an argument for the redefinition of the boundaries that constitute knowledge in management and organization st
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