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Designing the Study

In: Managing in Britain and Germany

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  • Rosemary Stewart
  • Jean-Louis Barsoux
  • Alfred Kieser
  • Hans-Dieter Ganter
  • Peter Walgenbach

Abstract

Management research is conventionally presented as an orderly, coherent and logical process. The research design follows on neatly from the aims, rationale and theoretical perspective of the investigation. The reality is somewhat different, particularly when the subject is complex. Limits on time, available manpower and the goodwill of informants means that some of the noble research objectives are inevitably compromised. This is especially true of cross-cultural research where the practical problems of comparison are manifold — and rendered all the more ‘challenging’ in the present study by the lack of indigenous German research on management work.

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  • Rosemary Stewart & Jean-Louis Barsoux & Alfred Kieser & Hans-Dieter Ganter & Peter Walgenbach, 1994. "Designing the Study," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Managing in Britain and Germany, chapter 2, pages 12-41, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-23584-1_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23584-1_2
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