Inquiring Organizations

Inquiring Organizations

Author: James Forrest Courtney

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9781591403104

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This book assembles into one volume a comprehensive collection of the key current thinking regarding the use of C. West Churchman's Design of Inquiring Systems as a basis for computer-based inquiring systems design and implementation. Inquiring systems are systems that go beyond knowledge management to actively inquire about their environment.


Discovering Dynamical Systems Through Experiment and Inquiry

Discovering Dynamical Systems Through Experiment and Inquiry

Author: Thomas Lofaro

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2024-08-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367713768

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The book differs from most texts on the topic by blending the use of computer simulations with inquiry-based learning (IBL). Students can discover examples and counterexamples through manipulations built into the software though a link to the website.


Narrative Inquiry

Narrative Inquiry

Author: Colette Daiute

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2013-10-17

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1483313042

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Narrative Inquiry provides both a new theoretical orientation and a set of practical techniques that students and experienced researchers can use to conduct narrative research. Explaining the principles of what she terms “dynamic narrating,” author Colette Daiute provides an approach to narrative inquiry that builds on practices of daily life where we use storytelling to connect with other people, deal with social structures, make sense of surrounding events, and craft our own way of fitting in with various contexts. Throughout the book, Daiute illustrates and applies narrative inquiry with a wide variety of examples, practical activities, charts, suggestions for interpreting analyses, and tips on writing up results. Narrative Inquiry integrates cultural-historical activity, discourse theories (including critical discourse theory and conversation analysis), and interdisciplinary research on narrative as applied to a range of research projects in different cultural settings.


Designing Social Inquiry

Designing Social Inquiry

Author: Gary King

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1994-05-22

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0691034710

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Designing Social Inquiry focuses on improving qualitative research, where numerical measurement is either impossible or undesirable. What are the right questions to ask? How should you define and make inferences about causal effects? How can you avoid bias? How many cases do you need, and how should they be selected? What are the consequences of unavoidable problems in qualitative research, such as measurement error, incomplete information, or omitted variables? What are proper ways to estimate and report the uncertainty of your conclusions?


Nurturing Modalities of Inquiry in Entrepreneurship Research

Nurturing Modalities of Inquiry in Entrepreneurship Research

Author: David Higgins

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1802621857

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This edited collection stimulates discussion, shares practice and explores challenges around current and new approaches to inquiry - encompassing all aspects of entrepreneurship research, from its conception through to its execution and related issues such as education, training and learning.


Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 12 - Inquiry

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 12 - Inquiry

Author: Allen Kent

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1971-09-01

Total Pages: 1644

ISBN-13: 9780824720124

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"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."


Improving Inquiry in Social Science

Improving Inquiry in Social Science

Author: Richard E. Snow

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780805807486

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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.