This textbook provides first-hand, inside accounts of the process of doing research in organizations. It is intended both for students of research methods in sociology and social psychology, and for students of organization studies, organizational behaviour and management. The contributors tackle such problems as: gaining access to organizations, 'getting on' in organizations, quantitative and qualitative styles of investigation, the use of historical materials, the effects of resources on the context of research, the part played by political factors in organizational research, the relevance of grounded theory and conducting research within a cross-cultural framework.

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Acknowledgements. Notes on Contributors. Introduction: 'Inside' Accounts and Social Research in Organizations 1. Regulating Research: Politics and Decision Making in Industrial Organizations 2. Insights on Site: Research into Construction Project Organizations 3. Getting in, Getting On, Getting Out and Getting Back 4. Researching White Collar Organizations: Why Sociologists Should Not Stop Doing Case Studies 5. Historical Methods and Organization Analysis: The Case of A Naval Dockyard 6. In Another Country 7. Connoisseurship in the Study of Organizational Cultures 8. The Aston Research Programme 9. Ruminations on Munificence and Scarcity in Research 10. Some Reflections Upon Research in Organizations.