Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Fall Semester Booklist

Interested in what the students are reading this semester? Check out our fall 2022 book list:

Year 1

Introduction to Research Inquiry

  • Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum Whyte, W.F.

  • Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education Lareau, A.  
  • Dancing Skeletons Dettwyler, K.A.

  • The Practice of Social Research  Babbie, E. R.

  • Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research Van de Ven, A. H.

  • Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory Corbin, J., & Strauss, A

  • On Writing Well  Zinsser, W.

  • Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach  Maxwell, J.A.

  • Management and Organizational Theory: A Jossey-Bass reader (Vol 9) Miles, J.A.

  • The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research Glaser & Strauss, A.


Leading Change

  • Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness McKeee, A., Boyatzis, R., Johnston, F.

  • Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning Boyatzis, R.E., Smith, M., VanOosten, E.


Collective Action

  • The Evolution of Cooperation    Axelrod, R.

  • Governing the Commons  Ostrom, E.

  • Logic of Collective Action  Olson, M.


Year 2

Qualitative Inquiry II

  • Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes 2nd ed. Emerson, R., Fretz, R., Shaw, L.

Causal Analysis of Business Problems I

  • Multivariate Data Analysis 8th Ed. Hair, J.F., Black, W.C., Rabin, B.J., & Anderson, R.E.

  • Engaged Scholarship- A Guide for Organizational and Social Research Van de Ven, A.

  • Naked statistics: Stripping the dread from the data Wheelan, C.

Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Arena

A variety of articles were used in this course


Year 3

Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Inquiry

  • Foundations of Mixed Methods Research 2nd ed. Teddlie, C. & Tashakkori, A.

  • Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research, 3rd ed Creswell, J. and Clark, P.

  • Case Study Research: Design and Methods 6th ed. Yin, R.

  • Interpreting Qualitative Data 6th ed. Silverman, D.

Advanced Analytical Methods for Generalizing Research

  • Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis 2nd ed. Hayes, A.F.

  • Regression and Mediation Analysis Using Mplus Muthen, B., Muthen, L., & Asparouhov, T.

Designing Sustainable Systems

  • The Model Thinker Page, S.

  • A New Philosophy of Society DeLanda, M.

Business as an Evolving Complex System

  • Ecosystem Edge: Competitiveness in the Face of Disruption Williamson, P. & De Meyer, A.