Producing Management Knowledge Book

Introduction 1 Knowledge production in management - a messy practice JAN LOWSTEDT AND TORBJORN STJERNBERG

PART I: The researcher as producer of knowledge
2.Issue-driven research MICHAEL EARL
3.Writing as reflexive knowledge production and as self production DAVID SIMS

PART II: Approaches to knowledge production
4.Making sense of stockbrokers' performance: Reflections about phenomenographic approach JESPER BLOMBERG
5.Studying every day life: An ethnomethodological and discourse analytic approach PERNILLA BOLANDER Inside the school: An ethographic approach to school management ULRIKA TILLBERG
7.Tracing consultants' problems solving processes: A simulation approach ANDREAS WERR

PART III: From data to theory
8.Interviews as a source of knowledge TORBJORN STJERNBERG
9.Listening to executives: Content analysis of life stories BARBRO ANELL Building theory about small firms: A grounded theory approach TOMAS BRYTTING The making of a methaphor: Developing a theoretical framework THOMAS DURAND

PART IV: Co-producing management Researching organization design: Comparative vs collaborative approaches HARVEY KOLODNY AND :B. (RAMI) SHANI The changing practice of action research PETER DOCHERTY, ANDERS LJUNG AND TORBJORN STJERNBERG

PART V Concluding management knowledge The power of contrasts. Comparative research for overcoming ethnocentric myopia BENGT STYMNE AND JAN LOWSTEDT The innovative research enterprise BENGT STYMNE