ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with research in and on organizations and cover the topic from the point of new of the researcher's needs by using a number of subheadings. Moreover, organizations are becoming more and more complex. This is not a new phenomenon, nor is research into them, as evidenced by the classic studies and works on such diverse topics as bureaucracies the comparative study of organizations, and commentaries going back to sixteenth-century Florence. As Schwandt reminds us, such an approach makes it clear that language form, structure and use is both a key element of research in organizations and in the conceptual frameworks that are constructed. This hermeneutic emphasis is a key element in versteken or understanding the social construction of the world as and by actors in ongoing situations.
