Producing Management Knowledge

Jan Löwstedt, Torbjörn Stjernberg

'This book justifies a place on the bookshelf of any serious management researcher.' - Journal of Operational Research Society 2007

• 1. Practice about a Practice 2. Issue-Driven Research 3. Inductive Knowledge Production 4. Studying Every Day Life – An Ethno-Methodology Approach 5. Analyzing Public Texts – Critical Discourse Analysis 6. Making Sense of Stockbrokers Performance – Reflections about a Phenomenographic Approach 7. Inside the School – An Ethnographic Approach Listening for Management 8. Interviews as Bridging Fields of Interest 9. Listening to General Managers – A Content Analysis of Life Stories 10. Proposal for Consulting Assignment – Quasi Experiments Among Management Consultants 11. Condensated Complexity – Analysis of Microprocesses Writing Management 12. Presenting the Unique as General and Valid Knowledge – The Logic of Case Studies 13. Viability and Diffusion of Management Practice – Longitudinal Studies 14. Understanding Differences - Comparative Studies across Managerial and Research Cultures 15. Writing as Reflexive Knowledge Production – Research as Intellectual Work Co-Producing Management 1 6. Organization Design as a Research Topic - Socio Technical Systems Analysis