Paradigms and the Philosophy of Methods
Quantitative and qualitative methodologies are generally associated with two research paradigms: “positivism” and “phenomenology” respectively (Lalwani et al, 2004). According...
The Epistemology of Management/Business Studies
Management/business studies is historically committed to positivism (Morrell, 2008). Business studies, although a subcategory of social science, treats the social...
Anti-Positivism: Hermeneutics and Phenomenology
Phenomenology boasts diverse heritage: rationalism was an early contributor. A largely continental movement interpretable as the pre-emptive counterweight of practical...
Proto-Positivists on Society
According to the “mechanistic philosophy” (Ball, 2004 p. 19) of Thomas Hobbes, man is a puppet animated by the impersonal...
Positivism
A belated (C.19th) philosophical byproduct of the Age of Enlightenment, positivism is attributed chiefly to Comte but is strongly foreshadowed...
Ontology and Epistemology in Research
In Kantian terms, a researcher’s ontology is “nomothetic” if s/he regards the universe as a rule-governed reality that exists independently...
Reasoning my Pilot Research (2)
The Literature: Orthodoxy and Evolution Efficiency boosting methods such as lean, ECR, [1] and QR, [2] along with philosophies of...
Reasoning My Pilot Research (1)
Provisionally entitled “Guanxi as Supply Chain Risk Mitigator”, my initial research investigated the impact of a specific cultural phenomenon on...