I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: When Research Questions Ought to Change

Robert Macintosh, Jean Bartunek, Mamta Bhatt and Donald Maclean
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Mamta Bhatt: LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This chapter addresses the common assumption that research questions are fixed at the outset of a study and should remain stable thereafter. We consider field-based organizational research and ask whether and when research questions can legitimately change. We suggest that change can, does, and indeed should occur in response to changes in the context within which the research is being conducted. Using an illustrative example, we identify refinement and reframing as two distinct types of research question development. We conclude that greater transparency over research question evolution would be a healthy development for the field.

Date: 2016-07-21
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Published in Research in Organizational Change and Development, 24, pp.47-82, 2016, 978-1-78635-360-3. ⟨10.1108/S0897-301620160000024003⟩

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DOI: 10.1108/S0897-301620160000024003

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