object of attention ?

• discover what ?• relationship to practice ?• exemplars ?• organizations - importance• individuals - given ?• individual - organization relation• model of the individual (MoI)

Feb-16-10 2ESADE Research Issues

object, method & aesthetic

• quantitative

• qualitative

• objective

• subjective

Feb-16-10 3ESADE Research Issues

where is the researcher ?

reflexivity

Theory

Hypothesis

Experiment Observation

Conclusion

Scientific Method ?

Feb-16-10 4ESADE Research Issues

Experience

Interpretation Framework

Acceptance

Practice

The Inductive - or Subjective ? - Method

Feb-16-10 5ESADE Research Issues

inside ‘truths’

TH

E O

C

E

I FA

P

Pre-test / Post-test Method ?

Feb-16-10 6ESADE 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-16-10

concept A

concept B

concept C

concept D7ESADE Research Issues

Feb-16-10

people as objectsDoL

behavior-ism

rationalism, heterogeneity & specialization

relativism & theoretical anarchism

constructi-vism & uncertainty

organicism

dumb man

dys-functional man

economicman

subjectiveman

homo faberrhetorical man

org routines

bureaucratic theory

behavioral economics

critical theorytheories of the firmgame theory

organizations as cultures

political modelsagencygrowthinnovation

autopoiesisevolutionary economics

marketssocial exchange theory

ethnography & cultural anthro-pology

social construction

experimentaleconomicsinstitutions

8ESADE Research Issues