Doing Critical Research

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bath, and also affiliated with Lund University, Stockholm School of Economics and Bayes Business School, City, University of London.Stanley Deetz, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus and a President’s Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research and professional practice has focused organizational culture and change, micro-practices of power in organizations, and designing interaction processes for collaborative decision-making. Deetz is author/co-author of over 150 scholarly essays and several books including Leading Organizations through Transitions, Doing Critical Management Research, Managing Interpersonal Communication, Transforming Communication-Transforming Business, and Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar and is a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar and an International Communication Association Past-President and Fellow. He has lectured widely giving well over one hundred visiting scholar and invited lectures in twenty-four countries.

Useful text for students embarking on post graduate research.

• Chapter 1 An Introduction to Critical ResearchChapter 2 Alternative Social Science Research PerspectivesChapter 3 Critical Overview of Quantitative and Conventional Qualitative MethodologyChapter 4 The Critical Tradition: Critical Theory and PostmodernismChapter 5 New Guidelines for ResearchChapter 6 A Framework for Critical ResearchChapter 7 Developing Critical Sensitivity in Social ResearchChapter 8 On the Practice of Critical Social Research