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• Title:Constructing research questions : doing interesting research / Mats Alvesson, Jörgen Sandberg.
  
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• Author/Creator:Alvesson, Mats, 1956-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Sandberg, Jörgen.
  SAGE Research Methods Core
  SAGE Knowledge Complete Books And Reference Collection 2023 (KNCCBR23)
  SAGE Research Methods Complete A-Z List
  
• Published/Created:London : SAGE, 2013.
  

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  • Call Number: H62
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Social sciences--Research--Design.
  Questionnaires--Design.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
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• Summary:"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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781446255926
  1446255921
  144625593X
  9781446255933
  
• Contents: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.