scholarly journals TRABALHANDO NA INTERSECÇÃO ENTRE AS ABORDAGENS ESTRUTURALISTA E DISCURSIVA: UMA FERRAMENTA METODOLÓGICA PARA ESTUDOS BASEADOS NA PRÁTICA

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlei Pozzebon ◽  
Natalia Aguilar Delgado ◽  
Charo Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Methodological Tool

ABSTRACT In this paper we propose a methodological tool that seeks to contribute to the empirical study of practices in organization studies. There is a need for innovating and improving analytical tactics for theorizing about practice, particularly for helping connect localized social interactions to broader contexts. We propose the “temporal bracketing of discourses” tool and provide a detailed example that empirically illustrates its application.

scholarly journals WORKING AT THE CROSSROADS OF STRUCTURATIONIST AND DISCURSIVE APPROACHES: A METHODOLOGICAL TOOL FOR PRACTICE-BASED STUDIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlei Pozzebon ◽  
Natalia Aguilar Delgado ◽  
Charo Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Methodological Tool

ABSTRACT In this paper we propose a methodological tool that seeks to contribute to the empirical study of practices in organization studies. There is a need for innovating and improving analytical tactics for theorizing about practice, particularly for helping connect localized social interactions to broader contexts. We propose the “temporal bracketing of discourses” tool and provide a detailed example that empirically illustrates its application.

scholarly journals An Introduction to Video Methods in Organizational Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis LeBaron ◽  
Paula Jarzabkowski ◽  
Michael G. Pratt ◽  
Greg Fetzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The World ◽  
Methodological Tool

Video has become a methodological tool of choice for many researchers in social science, but video methods are relatively new to the field of organization studies. This article is an introduction to video methods. First, we situate video methods relative to other kinds of research, suggesting that video recordings and analyses can be used to replace or supplement other approaches, not only observational studies but also retrospective methods such as interviews and surveys. Second, we describe and discuss various features of video data in relation to ontological assumptions that researchers may bring to their research design. Video involves both opportunities and pitfalls for researchers, who ought to use video methods in ways that are consistent with their assumptions about the world and human activity. Third, we take a critical look at video methods by reporting progress that has been made while acknowledging gaps and work that remains to be done. Our critical considerations point repeatedly at articles in this special issue, which represent recent and important advances in video methods.

scholarly journals Speaking about vision, talking in the name of so much more: A methodological framework for ventriloquial analyses in organization studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 017084062093406
Author(s):  
Ellen Nathues ◽  
Mark van Vuuren ◽  
François Cooren
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Trace Back ◽  
Communicative Constitution Of Organizations ◽  
Systematic Inquiry ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Communicative Constitution

Organizations have long been treated as stable and fixed entities, defined by concrete buildings, catchy names, and strategic goals neatly written on paper. The Communicative Constitution of Organizations (CCO) school proposes an alternative, practice-grounded conceptualization for studying organizations as emerging in communicative (inter)actions. In so doing, CCO invites organizational scholars to trace back organizational phenomena to how they are communicated into existence. The concept of ventriloquism can help us explain the communicative constitutive view as it depicts how various elements of a situation are communicated into being and make a difference in interaction. However, ventriloquism lacks a proper methodological outline. Taking employee conversations about visions—a classic constituent of organizations—as our venue, we created a four-step framework for ventriloquial analyses and explored how visions are talked into existence. In this paper, we introduce and illustrate our analytical framework, showing how to identify, order, and present ventriloquial effects. We thus provide organizational (communication) scholars with a new methodological tool that facilitates the systematic inquiry into organizing and the organized from a communicative constitutive perspective.

scholarly journals Studying configurations with qualitative comparative analysis: Best practices in strategy and organization research

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Greckhamer ◽  
Santi Furnari ◽  
Peer C. Fiss ◽  
Ruth V. Aguilera
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Calibration Data ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organization Research

Qualitative comparative analysis is increasingly applied in strategy and organization research. The main purpose of our essay is to support this growing community of qualitative comparative analysis scholars by identifying best practices that can help guide researchers through the key stages of a qualitative comparative analysis empirical study (model building, sampling, calibration, data analysis, reporting, and interpretation of findings) and by providing examples of such practices drawn from strategy and organization studies. Coupled with this main purpose, we respond to Miller’s essay on configuration research by highlighting our points of agreement regarding his recommendations for configurational research and by addressing some of his concerns regarding qualitative comparative analysis. Our article thus contributes to configurational research by articulating how to leverage qualitative comparative analysis for enriching configurational theories of strategy and organization.

On the (re)construction of numbers and operational reality

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gun Abrahamsson ◽  
Hans Englund ◽  
Jonas Gerdin
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

Purpose This paper aims to examine the mobilization of management accounting (MA) numbers and metrics in social interactions. The purpose is to develop a model of how and why managers perceive and mobilize (new) MA numbers/metrics in a changing way over time in situated face-to-face interactions. Design/methodology/approach An observation-based qualitative field study of a change project in a large manufacturing company is used as the basis for our analysis. Findings The empirical study shows that MA numbers and metrics are essential when semi-distant managers strive to solve problems and achieve radical improvement targets, but that the ways in which existing and new metrics are perceived and mobilized during face-to-face interactions change over time. The study provides both a detailed account of the emergent nature of the transformation process and a number of mechanisms as to why managers (inter-)act the way they do to produce such change. Originality/value The paper problematizes the generally held view that MA numbers and metrics primarily work as a structuring device in face-to-face interactions, and also, how the processes are constituted through which MA is transformed into such a structuring device. The paper also adds new insights to our understandings of why managers (inter-)act the way they do to produce MA change.

scholarly journals The ratio of the mental and delinquent model of adolescent behaviour

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Yelena V. Gartvik
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Delinquent Behaviour ◽  
The Family ◽  
Adolescent Behaviour ◽  
The Individual

At present, the identification of psychological factors as a determinant of the illegal behaviour of adolescents is of great importance. The mental model allows explaining and predicting the behaviour of other people and reflecting one’s own mental inner reality. The study of the mental model in adolescents with delinquent and law-abiding behaviour using specially designed narratives provided us with the opportunity to analyse the understanding by adolescents, who have committed and not committed crimes, of the mental states of their own and that of another person, as well as the causes of such states in the process of social interactions. The ability to understand the mental world is paramount and necessary for understanding social interactions, for the correct formation of motives and semantic attitudes of the individual. The results of an empirical study allowed us to confirm the hypothesis that the deficit of the mental model is formed in the family; it is associated with the personality characteristics of the adolescent and, obviously, affects the formation of delinquent behaviour.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of the Impact of Social Interaction on Public Pro-Environmental Behavior

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (22) ◽  
pp. 4405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junjun Zheng ◽  
Mingmiao Yang ◽  
Mingyuan Xu ◽  
Cheng Zhao ◽  
Cong Shao
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
External Information ◽  
The Impact

Public pro-environmental behavior plays a positive role in solving environmental pollution problems. In a real socioeconomic system, because public pro-environmental behavior has characteristics of externality and interactivity, a number of factors, such as external information and the behavior of others, could affect the pro-environmental behavior of individuals who optimize their own strategies by interacting with the outside world; thus, public pro-environmental behavior and social interaction are very closely related. In order to study the impact of social interaction on public pro-environmental behavior and its mechanisms, the authors of this paper conducted an empirical study based on an Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression model and data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS). The empirical results show that: (1) social interaction has a promoting effect on public environmental protection behavior, and social interaction has a more significant impact on private environmental protection behavior; (2) the public will not only adjust their own environmental protection behavior by directly observing the behavior of others, they will also obtain environmental protection knowledge through social interactions which thus have a positive impact on their behavior. It is of great practical significance to study the impact of social interactions on public pro-environmental behavior.

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