Describing for theorizing

Décrire pour théoriser

Hervé Dumez
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Hervé Dumez: CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The article begins by showing the paradoxes of description : a neutral and objective description is an impossibility ; description can take various forms and can expand or contract (accordion effect). Then, the paper focuses on the possible scientific role of the description, which is essentially to shake the ideas and theories commonly accepted. Finally, it gives some insights on how to construct a theoretical description, which involves taking a minimal view, excluding, and then developing a series of other points of view adding one by one the excluded elements.

Keywords: description; theory; descriptive point of view; accordion effect; théorie; point de vue; descriptif; effet accordéon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-05
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Published in Revue internationale de psychosociologie et de gestion des comportements organisationnels, 2018, Décrire le qualitatif, XXIV (57), pp.75-90

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