Qualitative Research and Theory Development by Mats Alvesson

Qualitative Research and Theory Development by Mats Alvesson

Encouraging readers to take a critical approach to empirical data, the authors provide an account that helps social science researchers to develop new and interesting theories.

Mats Alvesson is masterful in showing us how to create new theories from grounded empirical materialsI highly recommend this book as a guide and reference on theory building
Andrew H. Van de Ven
Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Thank you Mats Alvesson for an altogether engaging, sophisticated, and inspiring account of the research process and its significance. With the emergence of a social constructionist view of science, questions concerning the function of research and theory have been paramount. In this highly readable volume, we are rewarded with a rich and practically useful resolution to these problems. This is no small undertaking, and I recommend the work with enthusiasm to both seasoned academics and beginning students
Professor Kenneth J. Gergen
Swarthmore College, US

Concise, informative, and provocative... Alvesson and Kärreman have not suggested abandoning qualitative research methods; they have instead offered a helpful book for when our ideas and methods break down into mysteries seeking as yet untried ideas and methods
The Qualitative Report

As these issues are at the core of the research process, they should be of interest to all researchers regardless of their discipline or stage in their career...I welcome the invitation to explore the extent to which, as a researcher, I have a personal need to place ‘order and control’ on to the topic areas that I research. I also welcome the authors’ invitation to be more creative within the research process
Dr Nina Burrowes
Social Research Association News

This book guides researchers with specific suggestions regarding the mysteries that go beyond the commonly known analysis methods. Readers can become skillful at using empirical data as input in developing theory. -- Penny Burge * Educational Review *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780857023247
ISBN 10	0857023241
Title	Qualitative Research and Theory Development
Author	Mats Alvesson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2011-05-12
Number of pages	144
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