Fieldwork in Transforming Societies: Understanding Methodology from Experience

ISBN-13: 9781403904287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 196 str.

Ed Clark; Snejina Michailova; Ed Clark

Opis

This book discusses the personal and professional challenges of conducting fieldwork in the difficult, sometimes threatening contexts of the transforming societies of post-socialist Europe and China. Field research is a distinctly human effort and the social relationships between researchers, third parties and respondents directly affect the quality of research findings. With unusual frankness, the authors share their personal field experiences and discuss both the imaginative strategies they have devised to cope with problems and the methodological lessons they have learned.

Spis treści

Doing Research in Transforming Contexts: Themes and Challenges; S.Michailova & E.Clark Identities, Roles and Qualitative Research in Central and Eastern Europe; T.Steger Who is Observing Whom? Fieldwork Roles and Ambiguities in Organisational Case Study Research; A.Soulsby Uncovering the Communist and Capitalist Shadow: Developing Relational Forms of Inquiry and Writing; K.Illes & B.Rees Constructing Enterprise Level Knowledge: Exploratory Methods and Transforming Contexts; A.Lorentzen Researching Organisations in Hungary: Practical Experience and Methodological Reflections; K.Balaton Transformation Research in East Germany: Institutions, Knowledge and Power; R.Alt & R.Lang Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Problems and Pitfalls in Researching Australian Expatriates in China; K.Hutchings Fieldwork in a Low-Trust (Post-)Communist Society; M.Nojonen

O autorze

RAMONA ALT Associate Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany KÁROLY BALATON Professor of Management at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, Hungary KATE HUTCHINGS Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Australia KATALIN ILLES Senior Lecturer, Researcher and Consultant in the Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, United Kingdom RAINHART LANG Professor in Organisation Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany ANNE LORENTZEN Associate Professor at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark MATTI NOJONEN Research Fellow in the Department of Management at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland BRONWEN REES Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Communications and Ethics at the Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, United Kingdom ANNA SOULSBY Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the University of Nottingham Business School, United Kingdom THOMAS STEGER Assistant Professor of European Management at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany