Investigating the extraordinary
Dörfler, Viktor and Stierand, Marc (2009) Investigating the extraordinary. In: British Academy of Management Conference 2009, 2009-09-15 - 2009-09-17.
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Abstract
This paper is the first step towards establishing the investigation of the extraordinary as a valid method of research in the field of business research and hopefully beyond. We list sev-eral ways in which investigation of outliers is used; i.e. if we are interested specifically in rare phenomena represented by outliers; when trying to gain general knowledge by examining ir-regular instances that expose particular characteristics of the topic under scrutiny; and as a way of strengthening an argument by showing it to be valid for outliers as well. As the ex-traordinary are outliers themselves, the reasons for investigating outliers apply to extraordi-nary as well. After this we take several research projects that focus on the extraordinary under closer examination; this way finding additional reason for investigating the extraordinary be-yond those reasons given for the outliers. This leads us to the world of Platonic ideas; in which the extraordinary is defined.
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Dörfler, Viktor ![]() | Item type: | Conference or Workshop Item(Paper) |
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ID code: | 14431 |
Keywords: | knowledge, phenomenology, business research, management, Social Sciences (General), Philosophy (General), Psychology |
Subjects: | Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General) Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Philosophy (General) Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Psychology |
Department: | Strathclyde Business School > Management Science |
Depositing user: | Dr Viktor Dorfler |
Date deposited: | 25 Jan 2010 12:39 |
Last modified: | 01 Jan 2021 03:11 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/14431 |
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