Relationality in organizational research: Exploring the space between

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Bradbury, H; Lichtenstein, BMB
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Hartford
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.11.5.551.15203
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 551-564
• 关键词: research methodologies; interdependence; relational paradigm

摘要

Relationships and interactions should be an important focus of attention in organizational scholarship. In contrast to traditional research approaches that focus on independent, discrete entities, methodologies oriented to relational concerns in organizations allow researchers to study the intersubjective and interdependent nature of organizational life. In addition to providing historical and philosophical bases for a perspective which emphasizes relationality, we review the growing number of methods that capture relational aspects of organizational life. Examples include network analysis, and complexity modeling, correspondence analysis and participatory research, case study methods, the learning history approach, psychometrics, and action inquiry. Our goal is to establish a palette of methodological choices for the researcher interested in operationalizing a relational perspective within organizational research/practice.