The iron cage of methodology: The vicious circle of means limiting ends limiting means...

Administration and Society

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 306-327

  Lowery, Daniel ^a,b   Evans, Karen G ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST   (United States)

^b Indiana University Northwest ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical research; Qualitative research methods; Truth claims

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042687312     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399704265298     Document Type: Article

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