Dialogical principles for qualitative inquirya nonfoundational path

Resumo

Leaving the thesis proposal defense room, the PhD business student had an important assignment to accomplish before being authorized to set a date for defending her thesis: to better justify the validity of her qualitative inquiry framed by a critical interpretive standpoint. Knowing that the generation, analysis, and interpretation of empirical materials are processes always conducted within some understanding of what constitutes legitimate inquiry and valid knowledge, she drew inspiration from ethnographical, confessional, critical, and post-modern work to propose a set of dialogical principles for conducting and evaluating a nonfoundational type of research inquiry. This manuscript revisits this venture a number of years later, reflecting on what has changed and what is still missing. We argue that there is a space and an occasion in the research methods literature for proposing dialogical principles for nonfoundational research, principles that are particularly relevant for qualitative researchers struggling in business schools worldwide.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2014

Instituição

Univ Alberta, Int Inst Qualitative Methodology

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso aberto

DOI

10.1177/160940691401300114

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/23414

Palavras-chave

Critical interpretive researchNonfoundational researchQualitative researchResearch principlesResearch criteriaResearch validityInformation-systemsOrganizational researchStrategyCiências sociaisPesquisa qualitativaMetodologia - Pesquisa