Ethnostatistics and organizational research methodologies: An introduction

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 417-431

  Gephart Jr , Robert P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Enumerology; Interpretive perspectives; Rhetoric of statistics; Social construction of numbers; Statistical validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748695590     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428106290199     Document Type: Article

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