Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data

Doing qualitative research: a practical handbook, by David Silverman, Los Angeles, Sage, 2010, 456 pp., AU$65.00, ISBN 978-1-84860-033-1, ISBN 978-1-94960-034-8. Available in Australia and New Zeal...

Doing qualitative research: a practical handbook

What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative—leading to this outcome. We then specify hypotheses about the impact of resource centralization and dependency, goal ambiguity and technical uncertainty, and professionalization and structuration on isomorphic change. Finally, we suggest implications for theories of organizations and social change.

The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)

Transforming qualitative data: Description, analysis, and interpretation

The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods

........................................................................................................... ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................... v TABLE OF CONTENTS ...................................................................................... vii LIST OF FIGURES .............................................................................................. xii LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................ xv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .............................................................................. xvi CHAPTER 01 .........................................................................................................

Ishara Lakshan

Papers

Integrated reporting in Sri Lankan PLCs