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| Author: | Tsoukas, H. |
| Title: | The validity of idiographic research explanations. |
| Journal: | Academy of Management Review
1989 : OCT, VOL. 14:4, p. 551-561 |
| Index terms: | RESEARCH CASE STUDIES |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The epistemological status of idiographic research is assessed using a realist perspective and focusing especially on the case study research design to study organizations. It is argued that idiographic studies do have an epistemological valid position, and this stems from the distinction between a/ casual laws and empirical generalizations, and b/real structures, actual events, and experienced events. For realist, generality is distinguished from recurrent regularities; instead, it is ascribed to the operation of casual tendencies (or powers) that are contingent upon specific circumstances. Idiographic research conceptualizes the casual capability of structures and elucidate the contingent manner in which casual powers has been formed. |
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