Ontological Oscillators Together With Ontological Purists

Burrell in addition to Morgan (1979: 266) speak nigh the occupation of ontological oscillation.  For representative when trying to interrogation a phenomenon that you lot regard every bit socially constructed you lot may uncovering yourself "admitting a to a greater extent than realist shape of ontology through the dorsum door" when you lot come upwardly to endeavor in addition to operationalise your interrogation design.  Karl Weick doesn't intend that you lot guide keep to stick rigidly to ane ontological sentiment for all fourth dimension ... "if people guide keep multiple identities in addition to bargain amongst multiple realities, why should nosotros await them to endure ontological purists ?" (1995:35).  I empathise amongst Weick's sentiment that the consequence is only ane of beingness consistent inside a detail slice of research.  Contrast for representative 2 recent pieces of operate that I guide keep been involved amongst ... ane takes a constructionist perspective on relationships betwixt clinicians in addition to managers inward healthcare settings (see http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.014) whilst the other involved a survey of managers to assess their familiarity amongst telephone commutation strategy tools (forthcoming inward the International Journal of Operations in addition to Production Management).  Both papers occupy really dissimilar infinite inward price of ontology, epistemology in addition to methodology ... but both are consistent inside the confines of what they claim to do.  Oscillating is fine across projects ... but you lot ask to endure a purist inside pieces of operate in addition to inward your PhD it is every bit good risky to claim to a greater extent than than ane seat inward relation to the ologies.

Finally, whilst shamelessly plugging my ain operate ... hither are a few of the papers I guide keep written on the plain of written report of interrogation methods ... who knows, you lot powerfulness uncovering them useful.


D MacLean, R MacIntosh and south Grant, Mode 2 Management Research, British Journal of Management, Volume 13, Issue 3, 189 – 207, Dec 2002


N Beech, R MacIntosh in addition to D MacLean, Dialogues Between Academics in addition to Practitioners: the business office of generative dialogic encounters, Organization Studies, 31(9), 1341-1367, 2010.


 P Hibbert, R MacIntosh in addition to C Coupland, Reflexivity, Recursion in addition to Relationality inward Organisational Research Processes, Qualitative Research inward Organizations in addition to Management, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2010, 47-62.


 N Beech, P Hibbert, R MacIntosh in addition to P McInnes, But I Thought We Were Friends ?, inward south Ybema, D Yanow, H Wels in addition to F Kamsteeg (eds), Organizational Ethnography: studying the complexities of everyday life,  SAGE: London, Chapter 10, 196-214,  2009