Qualitative Studies of Organizations. - Review - book review

John van Maanen: Qualitative Studies of Organizations

1998, Administrative Science Quarterly and Sage. 360 pages.

This book is designed to focus and stimulate thinking on those areas of administrative science that have most profoundly shaped the development of organizational theory and behaviour. In this volume, editor John van Maanen selects and introduces a compendium of ASQ articles on qualitative research. Each article serves as an example of well-written, substantively focused and theoretically relevant qualitative research. As a group, the articles represent a broad range of research styles, methods, topics and levels of analysis. The studies are spread across four areas of research: organizational process, groups in organizations, organizational identity and change, and the societal and institutional environment. Organizations, basketball teams, pop-music recording firms, and more. The authors of the works represent a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, political science, communication, management studies, and history.

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