Researching Organizational Practice Through Action Research: Case Studies and Design Choices

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 383-403

  Huxham, Chris ^a   Vangen, Siv ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b The Open University

Author keywords

Action research; Emergent theory; Practive oriented theory; Qualitative research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038009570     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428103254454     Document Type: Article

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