Da Patente in der heutigen Wissensgesellschaft als Mittel zum Technologiehandel bzw. Technologietransfer zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnen, stellt sich auch die Frage nach dem möglichen Handel der Patente selbst. Dennoch hat sich bislang kein organisierter Markt für Patente gebildet, obwohl ein...

Notes on editors -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Researching everyday accounting practice : epistemological debate / Mark A. Covaleski, Kathryn Haynes, Zahirul Hoque and Lee D. Parker -- Worldviews and paradigms -- Social constructionist research in accounting : a...

Theoretical and methodological positions and the choice to use qualitative methods / Joanna Coast and Louise Jackson -- Designing qualitative research studies in health economics / Joanna Coast, Amanda Owen-Smith, and Philip Kinghorn -- Understanding sampling and recruitment / Amanda Owen-Smith...

The role and importance of science -- Research in the social sciences -- Sources and types of scientific literature -- Methodology and research methods -- Design and implementation strategy of qualitative methods in scientific research -- Methods and techniques of data collection -- Notion,...

Preface -- Introduction: what is consumer ethnography : the "big E" and "little e" in consumer research? / by Paul M.W. Hackett & Roxana Maiorescu -- Integrating ethnographic consumer research using facet theory and the mapping sentence / Paul M.W. Hackett -- Ethics in qualitative consumer...