Re-imagining the Research Process

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bath, and also affiliated with Lund University, Stockholm School of Economics and Bayes Business School, City, University of London.Jörgen Sandberg is Professor in the University of Queensland (UQ) Business School and Honorary Professor at Warwick Business School.

• Part 1: Setting the scene and metaphorical reflexivityChapter 1 Conventions and templates: a straitjacket for innovative researchChapter 2 MetaphorsChapter 3 ReflexivityChapter 4 Reflexivity and metaphors in combinationPart 2: Re-imaging the research processChapter 5 Metaphorizing the grounding elements of RPChapter 6 Metaphorizing the framing elements of RPChapter 7 Metaphorizing the processing elements of RPChapter 8 Metaphorizing the delivering elements of RPPart 3: A kaleidoscope of RP metaphorsChapter 9 Proposing a kaleidoscopic of RP metaphorsChapter 10 Illustrating the kaleidoscope of RP metaphorsChapter 11 Generating more interesting research through metaphorical reflexivity

This is a very important book that goes right to the heart of what research and scholarship is and could be in the social sciences; and which therefore touches on several profound matters of intellectual and academic life in the twenty-first century.