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Return to Meaning

Hardcover • 2017 • English

Return to Meaning

By Mats Alvesson

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This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion. The explosion of published outputs, at least in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered environment which makes meaningful research difficult, as different voices compete to capture the limelight even briefly. Older, more significan...Show more

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ISBN

9780198787099

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

Return to Meaning

Format

Hardcover

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