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Alternative Perspectives in the Organizational Sciences: “Inquiry from the Inside” and “Inquiry from the Outside”
Roger Evered,Meryl Reis Louis +1 more
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The epistemological differences between these two approaches can help organization scientists select the mode of inquiry appropriate to the phenomenon under study and to their own abilities and purposes as discussed by the authors, which can also help organizational scientists to make better decisions.Abstract:
“Inquiry from the inside” is characterized by the experiential involvement of the researcher, the absence of a priori analytical categories, and an intent to understand a particular situation. “Inquiry from the outside” calls for detachment on the part of the researcher, who typically gathers data according to a priori analytical categories and aims to uncover knowledge that can be generalized to many situations. Greater appreciation of the epistemological differences between these two approaches can help organization scientists select the mode of inquiry appropriate to the phenomenon under study and to their own abilities and purposes.read more
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Studying Information Technology in Organizations: Research Approaches and Assumptions
TL;DR: It is suggested that much can be gained if a plurality of research perspectives is effectively employed to investigate information systems phenomena and that there exist other philosophical assumptions that can inform studies of the relationships between information technology, people, and organizations.
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Sensemaking and sensegiving in strategic change initiation
TL;DR: An ethnographic study of the initiation of a strategic change effort in a large, public university develops a new framework for understanding the distinctive character of the beginning stages of strategic change by tracking the first year of the change through four phases.
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Studying Information Technology in Organizations: Research Approaches and Assumptions
TL;DR: The authors examined 155 information systems research articles published from 1983 to 1988 and found that although this research is not rooted in a single overarching theoretical perspective, it does exhibit a single set of philosophical assumptions regarding the nature of the phenomena studied by information systems researchers, and what constitutes valid knowledge about those phenomena.
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Theory Construction as Disciplined Imagination
TL;DR: The process of theory construction in organizational studies is portrayed as imagination disciplined by evolutionary processes analogous to artificial selection as mentioned in this paper, and the quality of theory produced is predicted to vary as a function of the accuracy and detail present in the problem statement that triggers theory building, the number of and independence among the conjectures that attempt to solve the problem, and the number and diversity of selection criteria used to test the conjecture.
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Better Stories, Not Better Constructs, To Generate Better Theory: A Rejoinder to Eisenhardt
W. Gibb Dyer,Alan L. Wilkins +1 more
TL;DR: By not conducting the in-depth research applied in a traditional case study the author is depriving the research of the insight one receives from that depth of study, the authors assert.
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