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ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD QUESTIONS AND EMPIRICALLY GROUNDED THEORIZING
Author(s) -
SALVADOR FABRIZIO
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of supply chain management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.75
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1745-493X
pISSN - 1523-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-493x.2011.03248.x
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , grounded theory , epistemology , sociology , doctoral dissertation , positive economics , qualitative research , social science , economics , philosophy , higher education , physics , optics , economic growth
The absence of significant and counter‐intuitive findings is oftentimes considered a troubling weakness of a doctoral dissertation, and more in general of any piece of research. I suggest that these problems can be mitigated by incorporating practitioners' perspectives in the early theorizing steps of the research. I also propose that the researcher should focus on asking questions that are theoretically and practically intriguing, instead of becoming too concerned by the counter‐intuitiveness of expected findings.