Beyond rigour and relevance: A critical realist approach to business education
Beyond rigour and relevance: A critical realist approach to business education
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超越严谨性和相关性：商业教育的批判现实主义方法
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2010
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P. Murray
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Jawad Syed;J. Mingers;P. Murray
本文从批判现实主义的角度来理解商业和管理领域的研究与实践差距。为了调查围绕严格性与相关性争论的问题，我们研究了如何通过批判现实主义方法弥合学者和实践者的不同观点，涉及：（1）研究范式：学者们可能需要部署任何研究范式来调查其背景中的现象，而不是将他们的研究限制在方法论纯粹主义之内，（2）背景和因果关系：批判现实主义为解释主义研究提供了本体论基础，重申了关注背景、意义和解释的重要性因果影响，（3）方法论僵化：在解决研究与实践差距时，多种研究方法将更加重要，因为它们比传统方法更容易接受跨学科功能和时间和空间背景，（4）商业研究的伦理方面强调不仅需要参与大学而且还需要参与整个社会的知识议程。我们认为管理研究的批判性质也有助于解释为什么至少某些研究与实践之间的差距可以被视为自然的，因为学者和实践者的偏好不同。
This article takes a critical realist perspective to understand the research—practice gap in the field of business and management. To investigate issues surrounding the rigour versus relevance debate, we examine how the divergent perspectives of scholars and practitioners can be bridged by a critical realist approach in relation to: (1) the research paradigm: instead of confining their research within methodological purism, scholars may need to deploy any research paradigm to investigate a phenomenon in its context, (2) context and causality: critical realism provides an ontological grounding for interpretivist research reaffirming the importance of a focus on context, meaning and interpretation as causal influences, (3) methodological rigidity: multiple research methods will be more important when addressing research—practice gaps since they are more receptive to interdisciplinary functions and contexts in time and space than traditional methodologies, and (4) ethical aspects of business research highlighting the need to engage with the knowledge agenda of not only the university but also society overall. The critical nature of management studies we contend also helps to explain why at least certain research—practice gaps can be treated as natural because of divergent preferences of scholars and practitioners.