Strategic Human Resource Managemnt

Essential Skills for Management Research

Essential Skills for Management Research

Edited by David Partington

SAGE Publications
London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi

Editorial selection © David Partington 2002 Chapter 1 © Robert Chia 2002 Chapter 2 © Nada Korac-Kakabadse, Andrew Kakabadse and Alexander Kouzmin 2002 Chapter 3 © David A. Whetten 2002 Chapter 4 © Anne Sigismund Huff 2002 Chapter 5 © Kim James and Susan Vinnicombe 2002 Chapter 6 © Phyl Johnson and Don Harris 2002 Chapter 7 © Val Singh and John Dickson 2002 Chapter 8 © David Partington 2002 Chapter 9 © Alan Harrison 2002 Chapter 10 © Mark Jenkins 2002 Chapter 11 © Keith Goffin 2002 Chapter 12 © Susan Baker 2002 Chapter 13 © Colin Eden and Chris Huxham 2002 First published 2002 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash – I New Delhi 110 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0–7619–7007–X ISBN 0–7619–7008–8 (pbk) Library of Congress Control Number: 2001132942 Typeset by M Rules Printed in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire

Contents

Contributors Preface Acknowledgements

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Part 1: Philosophy and Research
1 The Production of Management Knowledge: Philosophical Underpinnings of Research... [continues]

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