02633nam a2200253Ia 4500 313196 20170223064026.0 120716s2013 cau 000 0 eng 2012944430 9781446255926 (c) 9781446255933 (p) DLC DLC pcc H62 .A48 2013 Mats Alvesson 251296 Local Constructing research questions doing interesting research Mats Alvesson, Jorgen Sandberg. Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 2013. 1302 viii, 141 p. ill. 24 cm.. Research Questions: A Core Ingredient in Developing Interesting Theories -- The Context of Constructing and Formulating Research Questions -- Gap-Spotting: The Prevalent Way of Constructing Research Questions in Social Science -- A Critical Evaluation of Gap-Spotting Research: Does It Lead to Interesting Theories? -- Problematization as a Methodology for Generating Research Questions -- Applying the Problematization Methodology in Practice -- Why Does Gap-Spotting Dominate When It Reduces the Chance to Create Interesting Theories? -- Constructing Interesting Research Questions: Problematization and Beyond. "All researchers want to produce interesting and influential theories. A key step in all theory development is formulating innovative research questions that will result in interesting and significant research. Traditional textbooks on research methods tend to ignore, or gloss over, actual ways of constructing research questions. In this text, Alvesson and Sandberg develop a problematization methodology for identifying and challenging the assumptions underlying existing theories and for generating research questions that can lead to more interesting and influential theories, using examples from across the social sciences. Established methods of generating research questions in the social sciences tend to focus on 'gap-spotting', which means that existing literature remains largely unchallenged. The authors show the dangers of conventional approaches, providing detailed ideas for how one can work through such problems and formulate novel research questions that challenge existing theories and produce more imaginative empirical studies. Constructing Research Questions is essential reading for any researcher looking to formulate research questions that are interesting and novel."--Publisher's website. Questionnaires Design. 155983 Local 171848 Social sciences Research Design Local Jörgen Sandberg 240477 Local 230982 230982 0 0 lc 0 H_62_000000000000000__A48_2013 0 mbl 128373 12 12 20 2016-05-27 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC. 45.00 504060 0 H62 .A48 2013 50000003240693 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:313196 6