The Application of Abductive and Retroductive Inference for the Design and Analysis of Theory-Driven Sociological Research

Meyer, Samantha B.; Lunnay, Belinda

doi:10.5153/sro.2819

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“…It provides the flexibility associated with exploratory, inductive research by ensuring that individual's perspectives predominate and that results are grounded in data. It has the added benefit of including theoretical frameworks within the analysis process whilst also considering unintended observations of empirical data which can remain opaque with a deductive approach (Meyer & Lunnay, 2012).…”

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Perceptions of institutional complexity and lobbyists' decisions to join lobbying coalitions – Evidence from the European Union context

Barron

Trouille

2015

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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We use data from in-depth interviews with business lobbyists in Brussels to investigate why they choose to join lobbying coalitions. We find that lobbyists face two competing institutional incentives. First, they are confronted with incentives to ally with other European organisations, develop multilateral policy messages, and communicate messages to the Commission and the Parliament. Simultaneously, they face inducements to join narrower coalitions, develop bilateral policy messages, and direct those messages at the Council.Lobbyists' receptivity to these incentives -and thus their choices of lobbying coalitionsdiffers with their age, educational background, and with the type and ownership structure of the organisations they represent. Combined, our findings contribute to the limited, mainly American literature on interest coalitions by demonstrating that lobbyists operate in complex institutional environments, and that their interpretations of and reactions to institutional complexity are shaped by individual-and organisational-level factors.

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Perceptions of institutional complexity and lobbyists' decisions to join lobbying coalitions – Evidence from the European Union context

Barron

Trouille

2015

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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“…Analysis: Analysis of uncertainty within and across the three cases can be described as abductive, 39 in that some of the themes had already been considered prior to the study as informed by the initial analytical schema but this did not preclude the identification of other forms of uncertainty. The themes which emerged from the qualitative data were used to refine, challenge and extend an awareness of the different aspects of uncertainty that are faced by actors within the appraisal process and moreover the strategies applied (explicitly or implicitly) in the face of these.…”

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Still Elegantly Muddling Through? NICE and Uncertainty in Decision Making About the Rationing of Expensive Medicines in England

2017

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Calnan, Michael .W. and Hashem, Ferhana and Brown, P (2017) Health and Care Excellence) as it regulates the provision of expensive new drugs within the English NHS on cost-effectiveness grounds. Ostensibly this is a highly rational process by which the regulatory mechanisms absorb uncertainty but in practice decision-making remains highly complex and uncertain. This paper draws on ethnographic data interviews with a range of stakeholders and decision-makers (n=41), observations of public and closed appraisal meetings, and documentary analysis regarding the decision-making processes involving three different pharmaceutical products. The study explores the various ways in which different forms of uncertainty are perceived and tackled within these Single Technology Appraisals (STAs). Difficulties of dealing with the various levels of uncertainty were manifest and often rendered straightforward decision-making problematic.Uncertainties associated with epistemology, procedures, interpersonal relations and technicality were particularly evident. The need to exercise discretion within a more formal institutional framework shaped a pragmatic combining of explicit and informal, collective and individual, strategies and tactics to navigate through the layers of complexity and uncertainty in making decisions.2

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“…In this respect, the Danermark et al model offers some insights, and Meyer and Lunnay (2013) have used it to effect in studying trust. However, the advantage of more general application of the model to work-based studies is not evident.…”

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Transdisciplinarity as Epistemology, Ontology or Principles of Practical Judgement

Gibbs

2015

Transdisciplinary Professional Learning and Practice

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Transdisciplinary ProblemsProfessional practices occur in workplaces, social systems that confound simple analysis, where things change and turn messy. There are many disciplinary approaches to take (e.g. anthropological, psychological and sociological) but, I propose, attempts to determine what and why things happen within professional practice prove difficult from any single disciplinary and epistemological perspective. I take these transdisciplinary problems to be issues that are complex and involve societal concerns, which lose their very nature when deconstructed to simple disciplinary interventions and, indeed, confound such mono-disciplinary interventions. These issues need to be taken at their face value, informed by a range of knowledges and resolved within the constraints of the socio-political context that, in many cases, created them.Transdisciplinary issues require professional engagement in a wide range of professional contexts. Mitrany and Stokols (2005) point to the sectors of urban planning, public policy and environmental management that, they state: long have understood that complex problems such as community violence, environmental degradation, transit-related injuries, sustainable development and urban change are unlikely to be resolved in the absence of efforts to integrate knowledge drawn from several different disciplines. (2005, p. 437) P. Gibbs ( )

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The Application of Abductive and Retroductive Inference for the Design and Analysis of Theory-Driven Sociological Research

Cited by 174 publications

References 33 publications

Perceptions of institutional complexity and lobbyists' decisions to join lobbying coalitions – Evidence from the European Union context

Perceptions of institutional complexity and lobbyists' decisions to join lobbying coalitions – Evidence from the European Union context

Still Elegantly Muddling Through? NICE and Uncertainty in Decision Making About the Rationing of Expensive Medicines in England

Transdisciplinarity as Epistemology, Ontology or Principles of Practical Judgement

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