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.

    Author(s):Dörfler, Viktor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8314-4162 and Stierand, Marc
    Item type:Conference or Workshop Item(Paper)
    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:04 Oct 2019 03:44
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/14431
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