Doing Interpretive Research
Speaker: Catherine Welch (Trinity College Dublin)
Time: Thursday, 15th of December at 10am (Eastern) / 3pm (London) / 8.30pm (Delhi). This webinar is scheduled for 90 minutes (incl. Q&A).
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This webinar will explore the hermeneutic tradition in interpretive research. The hermeneutic tradition challenges the researcher to question the clues from the field, rather than take them at face value. Even if informants are candid and open, researchers can only begin to understand their responses by placing them into their broader social webs of meaning. How then do we reconnect with the hermeneutic tradition? Doing so does not mean following a 'template', or prescribed set of steps. Rather, hermeneutic research can be guided by heuristics: thought patterns and probing questions that assist the interpretive process. In this webinar, we will discuss these key heuristics that can guide the research process, and how they change our understanding of 'first-order' and 'second-order' concepts in interpretive research.
Recommended reading:
- Gioia, D., Corley, K., Eisenhardt, K., Feldman, M., Langley, A., Lê, J., ... & Welch, C. (2022). A curated debate: On using "templates" in qualitative research. Journal of Management Inquiry, 31(3), 231–252.
- Mees-Buss, J., Welch, C., & Piekkari, R. (2022). From templates to heuristics: How and why to move beyond the Gioia methodology. Organizational Research Methods, 25(2), 405-429.
- Schaefer, S. M., & Alvesson, M. (2020), 'Epistemic attitudes and source critique in qualitative research', Journal of Management Inquiry, 29(1), 33-45.
- Silverman, D. (2017), 'How was it for you? The interview society and the irresistible rise of the (poorly analysed) interview', Qualitative Research, 17(2): 144-158
- Van Maanen, J. (1979). The fact of fiction in organizational ethnography. Administrative Science Quarterly, 24(4), 539-550.
About the speaker
Catherine Welch is Chair of Strategic Management at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at Aalto University, Finland. Her research concentrates on contextualizing international business research through the use of qualitative research methodology and process approaches to studying the internationalization processes of firms. She is an Associate Editor of Organizational Research Methods, a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Business Studies and a Vice-President of the Academy of International Business (AIB) Research Methods Shared Interest Group (RM-SIG) (https://rmsig.aib.world/newsletter/). She currently serves on the AIB's board as Vice President Programs.
For queries, please contact Ibrat Djabbarov i.djabbarov@cranfield.ac.uk.
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Ibrat Djabbarov
Cranfield School of Management
BEDFORD
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