The French version of this book won the “prix du meilleur livre de recherche de l\u2019ann\u00e9e” awarded by the Fondation Nationale pour l\u2019enseignement de la la gestion des entreprises (FNEGE).<\/p>\n
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\nYou are a sociologist, a researcher in management, politcal science or anthropology, and you have chosen to meet people in a company, in an organization or in the social world to interview them and observe their day to day behavior. In short, you have chosen the comprehensive methodology that is usually called qualitative research.<\/p>\n
\nThe questions you ask yourself are practical: How and where to start? How to do a review of the litterature? How to develop good ideas? The are also technical: How do I describe what I see and work out a narrative of what\u2019s going on? Finally, they are epistemological (but it turns out these are just as practical): What kind of theory can I use and produce? In what sense can what I am doing be said to be science?<\/p>\n
\nAimed at a broad range of researchers, beginners or advanced, historians, management scientists, anthropologists or economists, all looking to develop a rigorous understanding of interactions and actors\u2019 behavior, this book should help them to formulate the right methodological questions and to find ways of addressing them in original ways.<\/p>\n
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