Doing Exemplary Research

by Peter J. Frost, Ralph E. Stablein

Overview

This volume explores the doing of research - as a ‘journey' for those involved. It looks at the meanings of exemplary research practice. Authors' descriptions of the origins, experiences and outcomes of their own research are interwoven with commentaries on these by other major figures in the field. The book is an outstanding resource for all organizational researchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803939097
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/07/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xi
	Introduction	1
Part I.	Doing Exemplary Research: Seven Journeys
	Introductory Remarks: Journey 1	19
Journey 1.	Obsession and Naivete in Upstate New York: A Tale of Research	22
	Commentaries
	The Culture of Social Science Research	36
	Comment on "Cultures of Culture"	43
	Introductory Remarks: Journey 2	49
Journey 2.	Time and Transition in My Work on Teams: Looking Back on a New Model of Group Development	52
	Commentaries
	Researchers Are Not Cats--They Can Survive and Succeed by Being Curious	65
	Time and Transitions	73
	Introductory Remarks: Journey 3	79
Journey 3.	From Loose Coupling to Environmental Jolts	82
	Commentaries
	Jolts as a Synopsis of Organizational Studies	99
	Embedded Metaphors and Organizational Ironies as Research Tools	105
	Introductory Remarks: Journey 4	113
Journey 4.	How We Untangled the Relationship Between Displayed Emotion and Organizational Sales: A Tale of Bickering and Optimism	115
	Commentaries
	Out of the Tangled Thicket: Persistence in the Face of Failed Conventional Wisdom	129
	Do Smiles Lead to Sales? Comments on the Sutton/Rafaeli Study	136
	Introductory Remarks: Journey 5	143
Journey 5.	Resolving a Scientific Dispute with Dr. Miriam Erez: Genesis, Process, Outcome, and Reflection	146
	Reflections on the Latham/Erez/Locke Study	155
	Reflections on the Latham/Erez/Locke Study	165
	Commentaries
	Comments on the Latham/Erez/Locke Study	167
	Experiments as Reforms	173
	Introductory Remarks: Journey 6	179
Journey 6.	Making War and Peace	182
	Commentaries
	Comments on "War and Peace"	193
	The Proliferation of Modern Personnel Practices	198
	Introductory Remarks: Journey 7	207
Journey 7.	Literary Methods and Organization Science: Reflection on "When the Sleeper Wakes"	210
	Commentaries
	Stories of Mike Armstrong and the Idea of Exemplary Research	227
	Escaping the Inherent Conservatism of Empirical Organizational Research	233
Part II.	Lessons from the Journeys
	Themes and Variations: An Examination of the Exemplars	243
	Beyond Exemplars: Some Reflections on the Meaning and Practice of Research in the 1990s	270
Appendix	Exemplars of Organizational Research--Nominations	295
	References	299
	About the Authors	313