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Dear all
Please find below the draft of a research symposium abstract. I am looking for people who may be able to teach us and contribute to methodological research on the topic of mixed methods within a grounded theory framework at the AoM 2013 meeting.
Please email with your ideas and comments: iwl@rouenbs.fr
Originally, GT methods (GTM) were broadly proposed to attempt closing "the gap between theory and empirical research" (Glaser and Strauss, 1967: vii), to "develop canons more suited to the discovery of theory" rather than to the testing of existing theories and finally, to "ground theory in social research itself for generating it from the data" (Ibid.: viii).
In their seminal 1967 publication, Glaser and Strauss made it clear that they intended GTM to be used with both qualitative and quantitative data, and a full chapter was dedicated to the theoretical elaboration of quantitative data. This tends to show that both Glaser and Strauss considered that a GT research may include both qualitative and/or quantitative data. In 2008, Glaser elaborated further on the uses of quantitative GTM. Quantitative methods involving quantitative data may thus be used for exploratory purposes in a GTM study.
However, GTM has become the dominant qualitative methodology since the late 1980s in many disciplines (Vryant and Charmaz, 2007) and, to this day, it appears to have been mostly used with qualitative data in management studies.
We argue that applying the GT framework in its full scope, intended purpose and meaning, would help theories of greater abstraction and scope to emerge in the field of management. Using the legacy of Lazarsfeld (who insisted on combining qualitative and quantitative analysis) as Glaser did, opens the way to alternative approaches for quantitative researchers. These approaches reach beyond the traditional positivist hypotheses-testing stance.
In order to start enriching this methodologically new field that is emerging in grounded theorists circles, we are interested in bringing together works that use mixed qualitative and quantitative methods (Morse, 2003) with qualitative and quantitative data in an exploratory, theory building stance.
References
GLASER B (2008). Doing Quantitative Grounded Theory. Sociology Press.
GLASER B and STRAUSS A (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. New York: Aldine.
MORSE J (2003) Principles of Mixed Methods and Multimethod Research design. In Handbook of Mixed Methods in social and behavioural research (TASHAKKORI A and TEDDUE C), SAGE publications, pp. 189-208.
VRYANT B and CHARMAZ K (2007) The Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory. SAGE Publications Ltd
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