Engaged Scholarship
A Guide for Organizational and Social Research
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 May 2007
- ISBN 9780199226290
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 242x163x22 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous figures and tables 0
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Short description:
A guide for organizational and social research in business studies and the social sciences, providing a clear framework for research design and methodology. It will be an invaluable tool for academics, researchers, and graduate students across the social sciences concerned with rigorous and relevant research in the contemporary world.
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The relationship between theory and practice, research and action, is fundamental to all fields of applied social science. Should research findings and knowledge be useful for science, practice, and policy? If so, how should such research be designed, carried out and disseminated to achieve the twin goals of rigor and relevance?
These challenges are particularly relevant in the applied areas of management and organization studies where there is a distinct responsibility for researchers to engage with the 'real world'. In this carefully crafted and thoughtful book, leading management researcher Andrew Van de Ven both presents the broad intellectual challenge of 'engaged scholarship', and also sets out a clear framework and guidelines for carrying out soundly based and useful research for advancing both science and practice.
At a time when some may question the value and status of academic knowledge; and others, contrastingly, urge a closer relationship between researchers and research users - be they businesses, governments or other institutions - the challenge of engaged scholarship is as relevant as ever, and there is a real need for the thoughtful and considered approach offered by Van de Ven.
The book both provides a manifesto for engaged scholarship in the social sciences, and clear framework for research design and methodology. It will be an invaluable reference point and guide for academics, researchers and graduate students across the social sciences concerned with rigorous and relevant research in the contemporary world.
Van de Ven provides succinct, yet philosophically informed, summaries of alternative philosophical positions available to researchers.
Table of Contents:
Engaged Scholarship in a Professional School
Philosophy of Science Underlying Engaged Scholarship
Formulating the Research Problem
Building a Theory
Process and Variance Models
Designing Variance Studies
Designing Process Studies
Communicating and Using Research Knowledge
Practicing Engaged Scholarship
