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Mats Alvesson
Professor
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Epistemic Attitudes and Source Critique in Qualitative Research
Författare
Summary, in English
In this essay, we explore and discuss current practices of source critique. In our empirical analysis of a sample of interview-based studies, we find that few studies show a careful and reflective stance toward their sources. In the majority of cases, we discern a tendency to either ignore basic issues of the trustworthiness of interview material or produce technical descriptions which seem to have no real effect on the actual assessment of the study’s sources. We suggest five epistemic attitudes which describe how scholars engage—or rather not engage—in source critique. To improve source critique, we suggest tactics of intra- and extrasource critique which seriously consider interactional dynamics behind and quality of interview content other than “truth” reporting, aiming to corroborate interview statements by carefully cross-checking interview material with observations and multiple sources.
Avdelning/ar
- Företagsekonomiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2020-01-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
33-45
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Management Inquiry
Volym
29
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Economics and Business
Nyckelord
- interviews
- qualitative Research
- source critique
- epistemic attitude
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1056-4926