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Alvesson, Mats and Sandberg, Jörgen (2022) Pre-understanding : an interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research. Organization Studies, 43 (3). pp. 395-412. doi:10.1177/0170840621994507 ISSN 0170-8406.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840621994507
Abstract
Pre-understanding – our presuppositions of reality – underlies all research. Many researchers probably also draw productively on their pre-understanding in their studies. However, very few rationales and methodological resources exist for how researchers can enrich their research by mobilising their pre-understanding more actively and systematically. We elaborate and propose a framework for how researchers more actively, systematically and visibly can bring forward their pre-understanding and use it as a positive input in research, alongside formal data and theory. In particular, we show how researchers, in dialogue with data and theory, can mobilize their pre-understanding as an interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander throughout the research process, including stimulating imagination and idea generation, broadening the empirical base, and evaluating what empirical material and theoretical ideas are interesting and relevant to pursue.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology, Hermeneutics, Ethnology -- Methodology, Preunderstanding, Research -- Methods | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Organization Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0170-8406 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 March 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 43 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 395-412 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0170840621994507 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 January 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 January 2021 | ||||||||
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