Relationality in Organizational Research: Exploring The Space Between

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 intersubj...

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Published in:Organization science (Providence, R.I.) R.I.), 2000-09, Vol.11 (5), p.551-564
Main Authors: Bradbury, Hilary, Lichtenstein, Benyamin M. Bergmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Barley
Bourdieu, Pierre
Consciousness
Epistemology
Interdependence
Knowledge
Learning
Management
Methods
Modeling
Nature
Network analysis
Organization
Organizational analysis
Organizational behavior
Phenomena
Postmodernism
Relational Paradigm
Relational sociology
Research Methodologies
Research methodology
Research methods
Research studies
Social interaction
Social structures
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1047-7039
1526-5455
DOI:10.1287/orsc.11.5.551.15203