Doing Management Research

DOING
MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH

DOING
MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE
Raymond-Alain Thiétart et al.
Translated by Samantha Wauchope
SAGE Publications
London •Thousand Oaks •New Delhi

Editorial arrangement, Introduction and Part
introductions © Raymond-Alain Thiétart 2001
Chapter 1 © Martine Girod-Séville
and Véronique Perret 2001
Chapter 2 © Florence Allard-Poesi
and Christine Maréchal 2001
Chapter 3 © Sandra Charreire
and Florence Durieux 2001
Chapter 4 © Philippe Baumard
and Jérôme Ibert 2001
Chapter 5 © Corinne Grenier
and Emmanuel Josserand 2001
Chapters 6 and 8 © Isabelle Royer
and Philippe Zarlowski 2001
Chapter 7 © Jacques Angot
and Patricia Milano 2001
Chapter 9 © Jérôme Ibert, Philippe Baumard,
Carole Donada and Jean-Marc Xuereb 2001
Chapter 10 © Carole Drucker-Godard,
Sylvie Ehlinger and Corinne Grenier 2001
Chapter 11 © Ababacar Mbengue 2001
Chapter 12 © Ababacar Mbengue
and Isabelle Vandangeon-Derumez 2001
Chapter 13 © Carole Donada
and Ababacar Mbengue 2001
Chapter 14 © Jacques Angot
and Emmanuel Josserand 2001
Chapter 15 © Bernard Forgues
and Isabelle Vandangeon-Derumez 2001
Chapter 16 © Florence Allard-Poesi,
Carole Drucker-Godard and
Sylvie Ehlinger 2001
Chapter 17 © Bernard Forgues 2001
Chapter 18 © Jean-Marc Xuereb 2001
First published in English in 2001
Originally published in French as Méthodes de
Recherche en Management by Dunod, Paris
© Dunod 1999
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the French Ministry of Culture – Centre
National du Livre and the University Paris-
Dauphine
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