فصلنامه روش شناسی علوم انسانی
پیاپی 66 (بهار 1390)

The present research was to explain and present a suitable methodology for strategic control studies. It studies the researches being performed on the macro-structures of strategic control. Based on the outcomes of research, it is a developed- applied type, based on the objectives of research, it is exploratory and based on the types of data, used in this research, and it is a qualitative research. The method being used here is a case study, so that research hypothesizes have analyzed via this method. For gathering the required data of research, documents from different resources were used (the research findings that published in the field of strategic control), and analyzed through models benchmarking method. Results show that the ethnographic research method, among other research methods, is more suitable for strategic control studies.

"Repertory grid" technique is a new method for drawing personal constructs that its philosophical paradigm is interpretive. This technique derived from George Kelly`s "personal construction theory" and its purpose is making constructs in regard to research topics by participants with minimizing possible interferences and biases of researcher. This paper, we will present origin, basic assumptions, constitutive elements, methods of analysis, and some methodological characteristics of repertory grid technique and has displayed an experimental example for better understanding of implementation of this technique and has intended to attract management researchers to application of this combined technique in managerial investigations.

Methodology is the study of how one can reach the truth. In fact, the English word method is derived from the Greek word Meta (following) and Hodos (the way). Thus, the implication of "method" is that in order to attain some purpose, one should follow a certain way. So Methodology can be defined as the strategies of using different ways to gather data and analyze them with the best measures of validity and reliability. This article is an introduction to methodology of drawing science map. In this Article, first we describe the relationship between Science map and Scientometrics (the science of measuring and analyzing science) and then with an outlook to the background of this field, its logical process will be reviewed and Map of Public Administration as a case study shall be presented.

Being affected by various and sometimes paradoxical approaches, organizational and management studies has underwent serious changes that mostly is due to the changes in resources and the method of obtaining knowledge which are considered as unstable factors happening beside management and organizational studies. From mechanical and chaos approaches to positivistic and hermeneutics ones which caused basic changes in epistemology, ontology and methodology, all confirms that organizational and management studies are affected by changes mentioned above. The changes began when meaning found an especial position in inferring and interpreting social factor's behaviors. How these changes affect organizational and management studies is the question that this research was to find an answer for it. The research method is descriptive - analytic and used from first hand references.

This article is an introduction to the study of "influence of religious teachings on management". We address general levels of application of religious teachings in the various sciences and knowledge, then these steps deployed in the management areas. The focus was on "Organizational Culture" -as an important element in management- and applied these levels on it. For this, it was necessary to understand "culture" and its position in management as well as meaning of "organization" in light of Quran. Finally Islamic community dimensions were expressed and according to Quran, we listed Organizational culture dimensions.

Historical research method is one of the research strategies that has rarely used in management studies in regards to other research methods. Increasing attention to postmodern issues and contextual research methods, make this methodology more important to take advantage than other times. This article introduces this research methodology and shows that how to take advantage of that method in management studies. Then this method is used in strategic decision making with an Islamic approach case. In this case six strategic decisions of three great Islamic persons were analyzed. This article offers an eight steps integrated historical research method that can be used in proposing or testing Islamic or local models.

Policy making as a field of knowledge is a sub-category in social sciences. Its functional theories with their major role in institutionalizing the bases of modern culture and civilization, is affected seriously by theorie's origins and principles. Hence we should say modernist learning's such as objectivity, rationality and development have formalized the implementation and assessment of policies. The present article besides deconstructing policy's implementation and assessment theories in modernist paradigm is to discuss these theories in a postmodern context.

The history of science witnesses the emergence of new theories and past theories lost their strengths and impacts. One of the most effective scientific fields that have had a major role in scientific developments is research methodology. From the oldest debates in this area that have had great influence on social sciences, including management, has been the differences between the quantitative and qualitative approaches to research method. Nowadays, the quantitative approach has a great prevalence on the literature of contemporary studies of management and this has made widespread criticisms. Understanding quantitative approach in management's research methods requires the inference of philosophical foundations of the approach and the criticisms around it. Through this research paper, it is tried to introduce philosophical origins of quantitative approach to research method in management and criticisms around it are considered too.