Foundations for Inquiry: Choices and Trade-Offs in the Organizational Sciences

by Cheri Young and Craig Lundberg

Foundations for Inquiry, a philosophy of social science book, is both a primer and a resource for anyone interested in social and behavioral research. As a "reader" with excerpts from classic and soon-to-be classic writings on research in the organizational sciences, the book shows the myriad choices facing researchers--including assumptions they make about ways of creating knowledge, beliefs and values they hold regarding reality, and philosophical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804741530
• ISBN13: 9780804741538
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Stanford Business Books
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"