Phenomenology in Logistics and SCM Research
Although long the norm in anthropology, sociology, and healthcare, qualitative methods are still struggling for recognition in the disciplines of...
Research in Logistics/SCM
Dunn et al (1993) concluded that logistics, marketing, and operations research all risk underachievement if confined to a single philosophical...
A Philosophical Critique and Defense
Habermas (1985) maintained that societies depend on criticisms of their own tradition. It appears that positivists, despite post-modernists’ claims to...
Testing Research Logics
The following tables provide an approximate account of the logical options that were potentially applicable to this research design, and...
Philosophical Issues in Research in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Buttle (1998) maintains that the stasis-seeking emphasis of positivism could explain the failure of positivist business literature to account for...
Philosophy and Logic of My Early Research
Qualitative research takes support from anti-positivists, who criticize positivism for failing to accommodate the social world, possibly because social reality...
Deduction or Induction?
To Collis and Hussey (2009), “deductive research” describes the development and testing of conceptual frameworks and the process of moving...
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...