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Constructing research questions : doing interesting research / Mats Alvesson & Jo?rgen Sandberg.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Los Angeles, California : SAGE, 2013Description: 1 online resource (viii, 141 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781446270035 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 300.721 23
LOC classification:
  • H62
Online resources: All researchers want to produce interesting and influential theories. A key step in all theory development is formulating innovative research questions that will result in interesting and significant research. Traditional textbooks on research methods tend to ignore, or gloss over, actual ways of constructing research questions. In this text, Alvesson and Sandberg develop a methodology for identifying and challenging assumptions underlying existing theories and generating research questions, using examples from across the social sciences.
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All researchers want to produce interesting and influential theories. A key step in all theory development is formulating innovative research questions that will result in interesting and significant research. Traditional textbooks on research methods tend to ignore, or gloss over, actual ways of constructing research questions. In this text, Alvesson and Sandberg develop a methodology for identifying and challenging assumptions underlying existing theories and generating research questions, using examples from across the social sciences.

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