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Grounded approaches to research

Hibbert, P.C. (2008) Grounded approaches to research. In: Management PhD Colloquim, 2008-10-03. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Participatory, interpretive research can be a useful means of developing rich, context-sensitive theory in management and organizational research studies. However, it is also fraught with tensions, for example: the balance between presenting and representing data; the compromise between revealing local theory and constructing generalized conceptualizations; and deciding whether - and how - the role of the reseacher is to be made for explicit or neturalized in such conceptualizations. In this paper I explore tensions in the grounding, interpreting and explicating processes of participatory interpetive research and describe a particular, partial ethnographic approach to responding to them, to illustrate some possible compromises and partial responses to such tensions

Item type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
ID code: 15039
Keywords: participation, ethnography, interpretive research, Management. Industrial Management, Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Subjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Department: Strathclyde Business School > Strategy and Organisation
Depositing user: Ms Hilde Ann Quigley
Date deposited: 03 Feb 2010 11:16
Last modified: 24 Sep 2017 00:58
URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/15039
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