Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide for Management, Business and Market Researchers

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Written with a clarity of style and a practical slant throughout, this book represents a primer for organizational, business and marketing students studying for research degrees who would like to adopt the grounded theory methodology approach for their dissertation or thesis. In a similar vein, it also should be a hugely important resource for researchers. It aims to both properly contextualise grounded theory by looking at its background, characteristics and the different sides of the argument of its potential for the researcher, but also to outline how the approach may be applied within a research context.

Grounded Theory is different from other texts on four levels:

It offers an overview of qualitative methods in general and locates grounded theory in this context;

It compares and contrasts the various grounded theory approaches in an accessible manner;

It offers an in-depth case study for students and researchers to follow//use;

And it provides a critique of the methodology itself.

Essential reading for advanced students and academics in the fields of organizational and business studies, marketing and management.

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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

Society and Law book that explains order without law.

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Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes
Robert Ellickson
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In Order without Law Robert C. Ellickson shows that law is far less important than is generally thought. He demonstrates that people largely govern themselves by means of informal rules-social norms-that develop without the aid of a state or other central coordinator. Integrating the latest scholarship in law, economics, sociology, game theory, and anthropology, Ellickson investigates the uncharted world within which order is successfully achieved without law.

The springboard for Ellickson's theory of norms is his close investigation of a variety of disputes arising from the damage created by escaped cattle in Shasta County, California. In "The Problem of Social Cost" --the most frequently cited article on law--economist Ronald H. Cease depicts farmers and ranchers as bargaining in the shadow of the law while resolving cattle-trespass disputes. Ellickson's field study of this problem refutes many of the behavioral assumptions that underlie Coase's vision, and will add realism to future efforts to apply economic analysis to law.

Drawing examples from a wide variety of social contexts, including whaling grounds, photocopying centers, and landlord-tenant relations, Ellickson explores the interaction between informal and legal rules and the usual domains in which these competing systems are employed. Order without Law firmly grounds its analysis in real-world events, while building a broad theory of how people cooperate to mutual advantage.

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An Anthropology book, not a Sociology book .......2007-08-24

This is an anthropological study of the politics of the people of Shasta Country, California. Its a typical college like textbook. It's too specific in its evaluation of social norms to these people to draw any general abstract conclusions, but thats the book. If you are interested in a specific case study, then the books kinda okay (its still written like a typical college anthropology textbook - deliberately dense and boring), but you're interested in general abstract conclusions about social norms that you would find in a sociology book, I recommend you pass on this expense book.

cool read.......2002-06-26

Let me take these reviews down a level. This is a fantastic book for anyone who is interested in how order arises in social situations. As other people have noted, its a great piece of academic literature, but its also just plain interesting. Overall Mr. Ellickson is more than a little anti-government in his assessment of the need for state intervention. However, there are plenty of everyday occurences of order that are not backed up by law that make this interesting. Think of the fact that when a funeral procession drives down a street everyone stops to let them pass, even if the traffic light is against them. This book looks at how these kinds of events are established and why they persist. Very cool, I highly recommend it.

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors.......2001-11-11

Order Without Law studies why, and under what circumstances, people accept a body of rules when there is no written law establishing those rules, and occasionally when the written law contradicts those rules. To answer this question, Professor Robert Ellickson settled into a long and detailed field study of the attitudes of cattle ranchers in Shasta County, California. His primary focus was on the informal rules governing boundary fences; who pays to build, who pays to maintain, who accepts the risk of stray cattle, and so forth. While his geographical focus was narrow, it was impressively deep, involving dozens of personal interviews and detailed reviews of public records. Ellickson explains why he believes that two current theories, law-and-economics and law-and-society, are both inadequate. He creates his own useful taxonomy of rules, rule makers, and rule enforcers. He offers hypotheses to predict future situations when people will more likely accept unwritten rules. Designed for professionals who deal daily in human behavior, such as sociologists, anthropologists, and lawyers, Order Without Law remains accessible to the general reader. One part was difficult to follow: the extended analysis of the Prisoner's Dilemma and its variations. But overall Order Without Law is a valuable addition to law and the social sciences.

Society and Law book that explains order without law........2000-10-28

This book does not seek to explain the world in economic terms, but it does seek to explain it in sociological terms. Using the example of Shasta County cattle ranchers he has crafted an excellent book. It is scholarly, yet accessible.

Ellickson brilliantly explains how some many of society's actions are coordinated by informal norms that do not necessarily mirror the law. The theory of how "order without law" occurs is what this effort seeks to explain. This is sometimes explained as spontaneous ordering. How ranchers in Shasta County settle their disputes without recourse to law has broad implications and allows Ellickson to construct a theoretical framework based on a society and law perspective.

Excellent interweaving of theory and empirics on ADR.......2000-07-13

Ellickson lucidly combines economic theory with solid empirical work -- speaking both the language of game theory and the (folksy) language of Shasta County cattle ranchers -- to provide a fresh perspective on informal mechanisms of "alternative dispute resolution."

Studies that combine social anthropology with microeconomic theory are rare; ones with nontrivial findings, and broad implications, are even rarer. But this is exactly what Ellickson accomplishes. Combining theory and observation, Ellickson cogently persuades us that while formal law always operates in the background of any conflict situation, the way people actually solve their disputes often differs markedly from formal law, because of culture, transaction costs, expectations, and other subtleties not incorporated into law books.

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Title: Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes.
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Publication: Yale Law Journal (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1993
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