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Mats Alvesson
Professor
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Pre-understanding : An interpretation-enhancer and horizon-expander in research
Författare
Summary, in English
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 mobilizing 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.
Avdelning/ar
- Organisation
Publiceringsår
2022
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
395-412
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Organization Studies
Volym
43
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Nyckelord
- hermeneutics
- interesting studies
- knowledge production
- pre-understanding
- research methods
- theory development
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0170-8406