Epistemological and Methodological Bases of Naturalistic Inquiry

Guba, Egon G.; Lincoln, Yvonna S.

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“…Quotes from these subjects are identified in both text and tables. (Guba and Lincoln, 1982). Overall, we relied heavily on data and evidence from the historical record, which enabled us to identify a complementary set of causal factors (Kieser, 1994: 618).…”

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Agency, structure, and the dominance of OEMs: Change and stability in the automotive sector

2015

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Research summary: This article reviews structural change in the automotive sector from 1997 to 2007. We find that, following internal framing contests, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) led efforts to change their sector's architecture, starting from both strong and weak competitive positions and working with suppliers to advocate a new vision based on modularity and outsourcing. As the risks and costs of this vision became apparent, OEMs were able to reverse course and reaffirm their hierarchical control on the sector, taking advantage of structural features that weren't salient ex ante. We consider why certain OEMs initiated this status‐quo challenging change, and identify how sector structure mediated their (and suppliers') efforts to implement it. We document the complex change process, driven by agency, structure, and heterogeneity in firms' understanding of their sector's architecture. Managerial summary: We study the “industry architecture” (i.e., division of labor and profit) of the automotive sector. During the late 1990s, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) embraced a new vision, based on “Modularity + Outsourcing,” inspired by an analogy with Personal Computers (PCs). This seems puzzling since such a change was hard to implement and could have led to OEMs relinquishing strategic control of the sector. The misstep was caused by internal framing contests and the agendas and influence of suppliers, consultants, and academics. We also consider why OEMs were able to partially reverse these changes, and document the role of structural features that let them control their sector and retain value: managing the customer experience, acting as guarantors of quality, and preserving hierarchical supply chains in which they functioned as system integrators. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Agency, structure, and the dominance of OEMs: Change and stability in the automotive sector

2015

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“…Nonetheless, temporality is largely absent from the texts of naturalistic inquiry, even in the discussion of its core assumptions (e.g. Denzin, 1971;Guba and Lincoln, 1982) and its techniques do not currently lend themselves to historical scholarship.…”

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Constructing Trustworthy Historical Narratives: Criteria, Principles and Techniques

Gill

Roulet

2017

British J of Management

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Organizational scholars increasingly recognize the value of employing historical research. Yet the fields of history and organization studies struggle to reconcile. In this paper, the authors contend that a closer connection between these two fields is possible if organizational historians bring their role in the construction of historical narratives to the fore and open up their research decisions for discussion. They provide guidelines to support this endeavor, drawing on four criteria that are prevalent within interpretive organization studies for developing the trustworthiness of research: credibility; confirmability; dependability; and transferability. In contrast to the traditional use of trustworthiness criteria to evaluate the quality of research, the authors advance the criteria to encourage historians to generate more transparent narratives. Such transparency allows others to comprehend and comment on the construction of narratives, thereby building trust and understanding. Each criterion is converted into a set of guiding principles to enhance the trustworthiness of historical research, pairing each principle with a practical technique gleaned from a range of disciplines within the social sciences to provide practical guidance.

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“…A qualitative descriptive methodology drawing on the general tenets of naturalistic inquiry was employed (Guba & Lincoln, 1982;Sandelowski, 2000). This approach seeks to provide a rich description of the informant's perceptions and experiences of a given phenomenon.…”

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Navigating physical activity engagement following a diagnosis of cancer: A qualitative exploration

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This qualitative descriptive study explored cancer survivors' experiences of barriers and facilitators to undertaking physical activity to inform how services and professionals might offer better support. Purposive and theoretical sampling was used to recruit 25 people who were up to 5 years post-cancer diagnosis. Participants took part in face to face, semi-structured interviews, and transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. The analysis identified five interrelated themes which represented cancer survivors' views: 1) You're on your own-a sense of abandonment post-treatment, and lack of sufficient and tailored information; 2) Dis-ease-disruption to self and identity, and a heightened awareness of physical self and fragility; 3) Becoming acclimatised-physical activity in the face of treatment-related side effects and residual impairment; 4) Importance of others-encouragement and support from health professionals, family and friends, and cancer-specific exercise groups; 5) Meanings people ascribed to physical activity-these were central and could help or hinder engagement. Our findings suggest being able to live well and re-engage in meaningful activities following a diagnosis of cancer is both complex and challenging. There appear to be gaps in current service provision in supporting the broader health and well-being of cancer survivors.

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Epistemological and Methodological Bases of Naturalistic Inquiry

Cited by 312 publications

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Agency, structure, and the dominance of OEMs: Change and stability in the automotive sector

Agency, structure, and the dominance of OEMs: Change and stability in the automotive sector

Constructing Trustworthy Historical Narratives: Criteria, Principles and Techniques

Navigating physical activity engagement following a diagnosis of cancer: A qualitative exploration

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