Developing Organisational Stories Through Grounded Theory Data Analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elayne Coakes ◽  
Anthony Elliman
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Case Research

This article provides a concrete example of a technique or tool that may improve intensive case research and understanding, especially when considering explanatory case study research. It is argued that researchers must work hard and be creative to provide robust methodological tools so that their work is accepted in the Information Systems field (in particular), as it is traditionally skeptical about qualitative studies. This paper argues that story-telling grounded in the data through the use of the Grounded Theory methodology and its associated methods provide a way of identifying the causal conditions in any case where the underlying dynamics for any type of organisational change are unknown. Although this research and method of presentation is relevant to the IS field, it has applications in any social science research where it is necessary to present the causal conditions for the phenomena under study.

Developing Organisational Stories through Grounded Theory Data Analysis

2012 ◽  
pp. 52-67
Author(s):  
Elayne Coakes ◽  
Anthony Elliman
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Case Research

This article provides a concrete example of a technique or tool that may improve intensive case research and understanding, especially when considering explanatory case study research. It is argued that researchers must work hard and be creative to provide robust methodological tools so that their work is accepted in the Information Systems field (in particular), as it is traditionally skeptical about qualitative studies. This paper argues that story-telling grounded in the data through the use of the Grounded Theory methodology and its associated methods provide a way of identifying the causal conditions in any case where the underlying dynamics for any type of organisational change are unknown. Although this research and method of presentation is relevant to the IS field, it has applications in any social science research where it is necessary to present the causal conditions for the phenomena under study.

The Use of Case Studies in Law and Social Science Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 381-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Social Scientific

This article reviews classic and contemporary case study research in law and social science. Taking as its starting point that legal scholars engaged in case studies generally have a set of questions distinct from those using other research approaches, the essay offers a detailed discussion of three primary contributions of case studies in legal scholarship: theory building, concept formation, and processes/mechanisms. The essay describes the role of case studies in social scientific work and their express value to legal scholars, and offers specific descriptions from classic and contemporary works.

scholarly journals It has Always Known, and we have Always been ‘other’: Knowing Capitalism and the ‘Coming Crisis’ of Sociology Confront the Concentration System and Mass-Observation

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
First Case ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Empirical Sociology ◽  
Coming Crisis

It has been suggested that the contemporary form of capitalism – knowing capitalism – is distinctively different from its earlier incarnations by being ‘knowing’ in unprecedented ways; and that there is a ‘coming crisis of empirical sociology’, because related technological developments are producing a leading-edge research infrastructure located firmly within knowing capitalism, rather than in academic social science. These arguments are counter-posed here through two case studies. Thinking over the longer run via these suggests that ‘it has always known’ and sociologists ‘have always been “other” ‘, and that the current situation is not as new as is claimed. The first case study concerns the reverberations of the South African War (1899–1902) and particularly the ‘concentration system’ and its knowledge-based and generating classification, measurement and disposition of groups of people. The second case study concerns the post-World War Two impact of wartime changes in the configuration of research and knowledge on Mass-Observation, a radical social science research organization on the borders and ‘other’ to institutionalised sociology.

scholarly journals An Analysis of The English Gerund as Subject, Direct Object, Subject Complemet, and Object of Preposition

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
Raflis Raflis ◽  
Arozato Lase
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Direct Object ◽  
Distribution Method ◽  
Main Verb ◽  
The Subject

The problem in this journal is gerund, verbal ending -ing and serves as a noun. Gerund differs from grammar construction in English because it is able to convert a verb into a noun by adding -ing at the end of the verb. At the same time, there is also a continuous tense form that adds -ing at the end of the verb. For students who start learning English will be confused with the form -ing that can be a noun and also a verb in the same sentence. The method used is the method of distribution, the method of data analysis into object analysis is part of the language itself. Objects in the distribution method are always part or element of the language being observed. In analyzing the data, the authors use qualitative methods. Qualitative research is a type of social science research that collects and works with non-numerical data and which seeks to interpret the meaning of the data being analyzed. In this study, researchers used descriptive design with the aim to analyze gerund as subject, direct object, complement of subject, and object of preposition at Tempo magazine in 2015. The author finds gerund formulation as follows: Gerund as Subject (Main + Main Verb + Complement), gerund as Direct Object (Subject + Main Verb + Gerund), gerund as Subject Complement (Subject + to be + Gerund), and gerund as Object of Preposition (Subject + Primary Keyword + Preposition + Gerund). The study found that Tempo magazine used gerund in magazines with higher gerund percentages as the preposition object. There are 8 gerunds as the subject, 5 gerund as a direct object, 6 gerund as complementary subject, and 23 gerund as the preposition object.

scholarly journals Research in Afghanistan: Innovative Strategies for Overcoming Methodological Challenges

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 2123-2131
Author(s):  
Parwez Besmel ◽  
Frederic I. Solop
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Mortgage Market ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Future Work

This paper examines challenges associated with conducting social science research in third world, conflict settings. Employing a qualitative, case study approach, we highlight the methodological barriers confronted by administration of Afghanistan Research Services’ (a Division of Afghanistan Holding Group) Mortgage Market Assessment, a study conducted in five major Afghanistan cities. While these barriers may be viewed through the lens of western social science as threatening the validity of legitimate research, innovative accommodations in the areas of sampling, quality control and mitigation of fear and mistrust led to successful data collection efforts. This case study of research in Afghanistan, offers lessons for ambitious researchers interested in adapting standard research techniques to future work with non-western peoples living under conflict conditions

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