Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902 1980 provides a comprehensive, critical study of research and development in a large US corporation. Du Pont was among a handful of US corporations that established formal research and development laboratories at the turn of the century to improve competitive positions in their respective industries. Initially, Du Pont's executives viewed R&D as an important though not central part of the corporations strategy. However the gains made by the company's...
Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902 1980 provides...
A follow-up to "The Nature of Social and Educational Inquiry," this volume explores the problem of criteria for distinguishing knowledge from false claims to knowledge and good research from bad research. The author focuses on how the advocates of different perspectives on the nature of inquiry-postempiricists, critical theorists, and interpretivists-have attempted to resolve this criteria problem.
A follow-up to "The Nature of Social and Educational Inquiry," this volume explores the problem of criteria for distinguishing knowledge from false...
Totem and Taboo is work employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four chapters are entitled: The Horror of Incest; Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts; and The Return of Totemism in Childhood.
Totem and Taboo is work employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four ch...
