Fieldwork in Transforming Societies

Understanding Methodology from Experience

By: E. Clark (Editor), S. Michailova (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 April 2004 | Edition Number 1

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RAMONA ALT Associate Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany KROLY BALATON Professor of Management at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, Hungary KATE HUTCHINGS Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Australia KATALIN ILLES Senior Lecturer, Researcher and Consultant in the Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, United Kingdom RAINHART LANG Professor in Organisation Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany ANNE LORENTZEN Associate Professor at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark MATTI NOJONEN Research Fellow in the Department of Management at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland BRONWEN REES Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Communications and Ethics at the Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Polytechnic University, C ambridge, United Kingdom ANNA SOULSBY Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the University of Nottingham Business School, United Kingdom THOMAS STEGER Assistant Professor of European Management at Chemnitz Univers

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List of Tables and Figures	p. vi
Abbreviations	p. vii
Notes on the Contributors	p. viii
Doing Research in Transforming Contexts: Themes and Challenges	p. 1
Identities, Roles and Qualitative Research in Central and Eastern Europe	p. 19
Who is Observing Whom? Fieldwork Roles and Ambiguities in Organisational Case Study Research	p. 39
Uncovering the Communist and Capitalist Shadow: Developing Relational Forms of Inquiry and Writing	p. 57
Constructing Enterprise Level Knowledge: Exploratory Methods and Transforming Contexts	p. 78
Researching Organisations in Hungary: Practical Experience and Methodological Reflections	p. 97
Transformation Research in East Germany: Institutions, Knowledge and Power	p. 114
Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Problems and Pitfalls in Researching Australian Expatriates in China	p. 136
Fieldwork in a Low-Trust (Post-)Communist Society	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 177
Index	p. 191
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