object of attention ? discover what ? relationship to practice ? exemplars ? organizations - importance individuals - given ? individual - organization relation model of the individual (MoI) Feb ESADE Research Issues
object, method & aesthetic quantitative qualitative objective subjective Feb ESADE Research Issues where is the researcher ? reflexivity
Theory Hypothesis Experiment Observation Conclusion Scientific Method ? Feb ESADE Research Issues
Experience InterpretationFramework Acceptance Practice The Inductive - or Subjective ? - Method Feb ESADE Research Issues inside ‘truths’
T H EO C E IF A P Pre-test / Post-test Method ? Feb ESADE Research Issues
Causality vs Agency individual as cause versus individual as object entrepreneur, leader, strategist, innovator von Clausewitz synthesis, researcher’s agency criticism as method upstream / downstream Feb concept A concept B concept C concept D 7ESADE Research Issues
Feb people as objects DoL behavior- ism rationalism, heterogeneity & specialization relativism & theoretical anarchism constructi- vism & uncertainty organicism dumb man dys- functional man economic man subjective man homo faber rhetorical man org routines bureau cratic theory behavioral economics critical theory theories of the firm game theory organization s as cultures political models agency growth innovation autopoiesis evolutionary economics markets social exchange theory ethnography & cultural anthro- pology social constructio n experimental economics institutions 8ESADE Research Issues