Methodological Reflections on Practice-Based Research in Organization Studies

Methodological Observations on Clinical Organization Research

Some methodological reflections on the difficulties of psychoanalytic research.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Revised and expanded version of a paper read at a joint session of the Division of Experimental Psychology and the Society for Projective Techniques, seventy-fourth annual convention of the American Psychological Association at New York City, September 6, 1966 (see American Psychologist, 21 (1966), 701). The present version is appearing as part of a symposium in Psychological Iss...

Reflections about the methodological dualism in health research.

Nursing assembles knowledge from different theoretical sciences and applied areas, involving the biological, human and social. Production of this specific knowledge aims to contribute to improve the quality of care and obtain better levels of health for human beings. Assuming truth of knowledge is the basis that determines the understanding of how people relate to each other. It is worth questi...

Reflections on the ethnographic approach in three research studies.

This paper aims at analyzing three research studies that focused on the effects of the perception in adultś attitudes with the purpose to improve the health care provided to children. Although each study had a distinct area of investigation, all of them adopted the ethnographic approach on the interaction between the adults and children. This work aimed at reporting the researchers' reflections...

Methodological challenges of trans-disciplinary research: Some systemic reflections

– This essay was written in response to an invitation by the editors of NSS issued after the author had reviewed the paper entitled " Methodological challenges of trans-disciplinary research " submitted by Christian Pohl and Gertrude Hirsch-Hadorn (see Pohl and Hirsch Hadorn, 2008). The essay provides an accounting for the transformation in my emotioning as I read the submitted paper by introdu...