36.1 - Management Research
Special Issue
- Wolf, Patricia; Meissner, Jens O.; Terry Nolan, Lemon, Mark; John, René; Baralou, Evangelia; Seemann, Silke: Methods for Qualitative Management Research in the Context of Social Systems Thinking.
- Besio, Cristina; Pronzini, Andrea: Inside Organizations and Out. Methodological Tenets for Empirical Research Inspired by Systems Theory.
- Gentile, Gian-Claudio: Die Gesprächsanalyse der dokumentarischen Methode als “Schlüssel” zu selbst-referenziellen Kommunikationssystemen? Theoretisch-methodologische Grundlagen und empirische Vignetten.
- Groddeck, Victoria von: The Case of Value Based Communication – Epistemological and Methodological Reflections from a System Theoretical Perspective.
- John, René; Rückert-John, Jana: Observing Possibilities. A Function-Analytical Approach to Organizational Change Processes.
- Bering Keiding, Tina: Observing Participating Observation – A Re-description Based on Systems Theory.
- Knudsen, Morten: Surprised by Method – Functional Method and Systems Theory.
- Lemon, Mark; Craig, John; Cook, Matthew: Looking In or Looking Out? Top-down Change and Operational Capability.
- Mayr, Katharina; Siri, Jasmin: Management as a Symbolizing Construction? Re-Arranging the Understanding of Management.
- Meissner, Jens O.; Sprenger, Martin: Mixing Methods in Innovation Research: Studying the Process-Culture-Link in Innovation Management.
- Peetz, Thorsten; Lohr, Karin; Hilbrich, Romy: Management, Organisation, Struktur. Theoretische Überlegungen und empirische Ergebnisse zur Transformation des Managements von Bildungsorganisationen.
- Tuckermann, Harald; Rüegg-Stürm, Johannes: Researching Practice and Practicing Research Reflexively. Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Research Partners and Researchers in Longitudinal Studies.
- Wolf, Patricia: Balanced Evaluation: Monitoring the “Success” of a Knowledge Management Project.
Mixed Issue
- Diaz-Bone, Rainer: Die Performativität der Sozialforschung – Sozialforschung als Sozio-Epistemologie.
- Gebauer, Ronald: Cadres on the Diplomatic Stage. The Social Origins and Career Patterns of GDR’s Ambassadors.
- Veselkova, Marcela: Global Imbalances from the Historical Perspective.
HSR Vol. 36 (2011) No. 1: Special Issue: Methods for Qualitative Management Research
Patricia Wolf, Jens O. Meissner, Terry Nolan, Mark Lemon, René John, Evangelia Baralou & Silke Seemann (Eds.): Methods for Qualitative Management Research in the Context of Social Systems Thinking
This HSR-Issue offers a Print Version of the FQS Online Edition (FQS 2010, 11/3). The papers follow three thematic threads that seem to be of particular importance to qualitative ma-nagement research from the stance of systems theory. The first of these themes relates to observation, i.e. the observable in management research. The second stream discusses up to date methods and the design of system theoretic studies for application in empirical research. And the third thread highlights the implications of those studies on what was studied, i.e. management in organizations. The presented papers offer a variety of ap-proaches for designing and conducting system theoretic research projects as well as how to present the findings within the respective research field. The term “social systems” is derived chiefly from the theoretical starting point propounded by Niklas LUHMANN. A key underlying assumption for this special is-sue is our belief that the reluctance of the scientific com-munity to apply LUHMANN’s social system theory in management research boils down to first the relative difficulty readers face when trying to follow his writing and the complexity of the theoretical approach, and, second and more significantly, a missing methodological basis for conducting research grounded in LUHMANN’s social system theory and related theoretical approaches. A very strong motivation for the composition of the special issue was the – from the perspective of qualitative management studies – under researched field of methods using a social systems approach. The most important driver for reprinting the special issue in Historical Social Research is the insight that social systems research can not be conducted without the knowledge about the historical development of a specific situation and the evolutionary dynamics of social systems. Socially constructed presence is only interpretable and understandable by knowing and reflecting on the development path of an organization, taking its stories and narrations into account. Thus, this issue contributes to extend the methodological understanding of historic social research with relation to organization and management studies.