Promoting Interpretive Research in Organization:Overview of Philosophical Foundations and Conduction Process of Phenomenography

Autor: Hassan Danaee Fard, Seyed Hosein Kazemi
Jazyk: perština
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: مطالعات مدیریت بهبود و تحول, Vol 20, Iss 61, Pp 121-147 (2010)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2251-8037
2476-5988
Popis: Phenomenography is a qualitative research method that is situated within interpretative paradigm. It was developed in Gothenburg University, Sweden, in 1970s and its objective is to achieve a deepunderstanding of various perceptions of a phenomenon by differentpeople. Fundamentals of this method are based on the issue thatdifferent individuals can have different perceptions or experiencesfrom a single phenomenon. Phenomenography attains and categorizesthese experiences, benefitting from individual interviews as datagathering instrument. The results of a phenomenography research aresome limited descriptive categories so that each of these categories represents a separate concept of a certain phenomenon perceived by a certain group of individuals. In addition, for presenting general andmultiple concepts of a phenomenon, phenomenographers relate thesedescriptive categories within a larger framework which is called “outcome space”. Hence, the results of phenomenography studies are useful in deep understanding of the concept of a phenomenon, from acertain group’s perspective
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