Grounded Theory

Teilhabe von Menschen mit intellektueller Beeinträchtigung an Bildung, Arbeit und Forschung

by oliver koenig

Co-Authored with Biewer, Gottfried & Fasching, Helga (2009): In: SWS Rundschau 3/09, 391-403.

Ein vom Österreichischen Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) gefördertes Forschungsprojekt am Institut für Bildungswissenschaft... more Ein vom Österreichischen Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) gefördertes Forschungsprojekt am Institut für Bildungswissenschaft der Universität Wien versucht, Partizipationserfahrungen von Menschen mit intellektueller Beeinträchtigung zu erfassen, die sich an der Nahtstelle zwischen Schule und Beruf oder bereits im Arbeitsleben befinden. Neben der in Österreich für diese Personengruppe erstmals durchgeführten bundesweiten quantitativen Erhebung (Übergangsverläufe von der Schule in den Beruf und Strukturdaten für den Arbeitsmarkt) zielt das Projekt primär auf die Rekonstruktion der Perspektive der Betroffenen mit qualitativen Methoden. In einer Längsschnittstudie werden auf Basis der Grounded Theory Daten zu den Erfahrungen in beiden Gruppen (Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene in der Übergangsphase sowie bereits im Arbeitsleben Stehende) bearbeitet.Mit der Einbeziehung von Menschen mit intellektueller Beeinträchtigung in die Interpretation und Validierung qualitativer Daten durch eine Referenzgruppe leistet das Projekt einen Beitrag zur Methodenentwicklung im Bereich partizipativer Forschung.

A research project at the Department of Education and Human Development at the University of Vienna, financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), tries to assess participation experience of persons with intellectual disabilities who are either at the interface of school and occupation or who are already integrated into the labour market. Besides a first nationwide collection of structural quantitative data concerning the transition phase of school to working life and of the labour market opportunities for persons with intellectual disabilities, the investigation focuses on reconstructing possible perspectives. A qualitative longitudinal study with two groups, of youths and young adults in the transition phase and of occupationally integrated persons, analyses the particular participation experiences, based on a grounded theory approach. By including persons with intellectual disabilities into processes of interpretation and validation of qualitative data via a reference group, the project contributes to a methodology development in the area of participatory research.

The fabric of internalized sexism

by Steve Bearman

Co-authored with Neill Korobov and Avril Thorne

Sexism consists not only of exceptional incidents, but also of mundane practices within everyday interactions.... more Sexism consists not only of exceptional incidents, but also of mundane practices within everyday interactions. Internalized sexism, which occurs when women enact learned sexist behaviors upon themselves and other women, also takes everyday forms. This study analyzed conversations between 45 pairs of female friends to assess in what forms and how often internalized sexism appeared. Dialogic practices of internalized sexism fell into 4 categories: assertions of incompetence, which express an internalized sense of powerlessness; competition between women; the construction of women as objects; and the invalidation or derogation of women. On average, 11 such practices occurred per 10- minute conversation, suggesting that internalized sexism can be a routine social practice in women‟s dialogues. By understanding which aspects of sexism seem most susceptible to internalization through mundane dialogic practices, we can better understand how the effects of sexism come to pervade women‟s everyday experiences. We may also learn how to intervene in this generative process.

The Nature of Communication Work During Cancer: Advancing the Theory of Illness Trajectories

by Elizabeth Goins

Abstract, Dedication, and Acknowledgments for the Hobbs (2011) dissertation published by SAS.

by Robert Dean Hobbs

The Hobbs (2011) doctoral study is published in the ProQuest Dissertations and These database, UMI No. 3484309

The purpose of the qualitative research was to assess models of education developed for the study to investigate how... more The purpose of the qualitative research was to assess models of education developed for the study to investigate how and when to incorporate second and third languages into the curriculum to improve language acquisition. Research indicates that L3 enhances and reinforces L2 and L1. The stratified systematic grounded theory study explored the perspectives of neurolinguists, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, and interdisciplinary education researchers to derive variables for constructing a new model of education. The outcome of the Internet survey revealed that 100% of the participants agreed that education must change and that teacher training must improve. Variables from the cross-disciplinary data contributed to the construction of an integrated model of multilingual education consisting of four primary models and other models to serve as tools for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessment as well as determining demographics and student meta-analysis of language abilities and storage in the brain. The first model emerged from the data to offer multilingual principles of education. The other primary models are macro, meso, and micro models. The macro model represents schools, instruction, assessment, and the curriculum cycle. The meso model depicts the developmental domains of the individual learner and includes a cyclical equation. The micro model delineates multilingual processing in the brain based on neurolinguistic research, variables from the current study, and Kees de Bot's bilingual adaptation of Levelt's language processing model. Recommendations include the incorporation of notional-functional pragmatic-aesthetic concepts as depicted in the models developed for the study and enhanced by input from published researchers with unique language and research repertoires who were located on four continents.

The enabling role of Web services in information system development practices: a grounded theory study

by Francesco Virili

Product returns and customer value: a footware industry case

by Ivan Russo

Published in Modelling Value Selected Papers of the 1st International Conference on Value Chain Management 2012
editors
Herbert Jodlbauer, Jan Olhager and Richard J. Schonberger

Managing the flow of product returns is increasingly recognized as a strategically important activity that spans... more Managing the flow of product returns is increasingly recognized as a strategically important activity that spans different functions within and across firms, especially in terms of marketing and operations. We focus specifically on managing returns in the shoes industry. In order to explore the phenomenon of returns management, a qualitative research methodology was chosen to generate an in-depth analysis given the currently limited understanding of the present research topic. Our results suggest that returns management is recognized an increased role in inter-functional alignment and that this phenomenon is linked to different elements of the relationship value.

Upgrading to a New Version of an ERP System: A Multilevel Analysis of Influencing Factors in a Software Ecosystem

by Petra Schubert

Holst Riis, Philip; Schubert, Petra (2012): Upgrading to a New Version of an ERP System: A Multilevel Analysis of Influencing Factors in a Software Ecosystem, in: Proceedings of the 45th HICSS Conference, Hawaii, 2012.

This paper presents research findings about the process of upgrading from an old to a new version of a pre-packaged... more This paper presents research findings about the process of upgrading from an old to a new version of a pre-packaged enterprise system in a software ecosys-tem of independent software vendors (ISVs) and value added resellers (VARs). Empirical data was collected from documents, observations and interviews with practitioners. Grounded theory was used to analyze the data. The resulting theory illustrates the upgrade decision process from the perspective of ISVs and VARs respectively and from the perspective of the software ecosystem as a whole. The findings suggest that the interdependence of the actors in the ecosystem may cause inertia in the diffusion of new versions.

Reculturing: Changing the culture of practice Part I

by Barbara Randolph

“We’re superhuman, we just can’t spell.” Using the affordances of an online social network to motivate learning through literacy in dyslexic sixth-form students.

by Owen Barden

Full EdD Thesis

This is a study of the use of Facebook as an educational resource by five dyslexic students at a Sixth Form College in... more This is a study of the use of Facebook as an educational resource by five dyslexic students at a Sixth Form College in north-west England. Through a project in which teacher-researcher and student-participants co-constructed a Facebook group page about the students’ scaffolded research into dyslexia, the study examines the educational affordances of a digitally-mediated social network. An innovative, flexible, experiential methodology combining action research and case study with an ethnographic approach was devised. This enabled the use of multiple mixed methods including participant-observation, interviews, video, dynamic screen capture and protocol analysis. This range of methods helped to capture much of the depth and complexity of the students’ online and offline interactions with each other and with Facebook as they contributed to the group and co-constructed their Facebook page. The philosophy and concepts of the New Literacy Studies and multimodality (Cope & Kalantzis, 2000; Kress & van Leeuwen, 1996, Kress 2010), and rigorous qualitative analytical procedures are used to construct a substantive grounded theory (Charmaz, 2006) of the students’ engagement with the social network and hence its educational potential. The study assesses the students' motivation to learn through literacy, the role of identities, and considers the pedagogical principles their use of the network evokes. It concludes that Facebook offers an affinity space which engages the students in active, critical learning about and through literacy (Gee, 2004 & 2007). Little if any research has apparently been documented on the potential of digital media to engage and motivate dyslexic students, nor to integrate models of dyslexia, radical perspectives on literacy and social models of disability (Herrington & Hunter-Carsch, 2001). This study begins to address this oversight and imbalance.

Herkunfts-, Ethno-und Weltorientierte: Aneignungstypen der kulturellen Identität und kommunikativen Vernetzung in der Diaspora

by Cigdem Bozdag

Co-authered with Andreas Hepp and Laura Suna. In: M&K Medien und Kommunikation, Heft 3/2010, Pp.320-342.

Awarded Publication: DGPuK (German Communication Association) 1. Price for the best publication in a German speaking journal in 2010 in the department of communication

Auf der Basis einer medienethnografischen Untersuchung u. a. mittels qualitativer In- terviews und Netzwerkanalysen... more Auf der Basis einer medienethnografischen Untersuchung u. a. mittels qualitativer In- terviews und Netzwerkanalysen werden in diesem Artikel für die marokkanische, rus- sische und türkische Diaspora in Deutschland drei Typen des Wechselverhältnisses von kultureller Identität und kommunikativer Vernetzung in der Medienaneignung unter- schieden, nämlich „Herkunftsorienierte“, „Ethnoorientierte“ und „Weltorientierte“. Die Form der kommunikativen Vernetzung artikuliert sich zusammen mit der jeweils sub- jektiv empfundenen kulturellen Zugehörigkeit als „Herkunftsvernetzung“, „bikulturelle Vernetzung“ und „transkulturelle Vernetzung“. Solche Analysen machen deutlich, dass eine Reduktion der Forschungsdiskussion auf die „Integrationsproblematik“ nicht ziel- führend ist. Im Gegenteil sind die Potenziale, die in der kommunikativen Vernetzung von Migrantinnen und Migranten mittels unterschiedlicher Medien bestehen, weit viel- fältiger.

«Grounded Theory: quels usages dans les recherches en contrôle de gestion»

by Vassili JOANNIDES

Joannidès, V. and Berland, N. (2008), "Grounded theory: quels usages dans les recherches en contrôle de gestion", Comptabilité Contrôle Audit, Vol. 14, pp. 72-94.

Cet article a pour objet de présenter les principaux
enjeux liés à la production de connaissances
avec la... more Cet article a pour objet de présenter les principaux
enjeux liés à la production de connaissances
avec la grounded theory en contrôle de
gestion. La recherche est une étude bibliographique
confrontant les pratiques de la grounded
theory avec les recommandations de ses fondateurs
(Glaser et Strauss, 1967 ; Strauss et Corbin,
1998). Après avoir présenté les principes et usages
de la grounded theory, nous montrons la diversité
d’utilisation de cette méthodologie dans les
recherches en contrôle de gestion à travers onze
articles revendiquant ce positionnement.

Projecto de Investigação para «ENTRE CORPOS E ECRÃS – IDENTIDADES E SEXUALIDADES DOS JOVENS NOS NOVOS MEDIA»

by Daniel Cardoso

Projecto de Doutoramento em Ciências da Comunicação arguido com nota de 17 valores.

PALAVRAS-CHAVE: juventude, internet, sexualidade, pornografia, sexting, teoria queer



Este... more PALAVRAS-CHAVE: juventude, internet, sexualidade, pornografia, sexting, teoria queer



Este Trabalho Final de Curso tem como objectivo a apresentação de um projecto de investigação para a realização de uma Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Comunicação.

Irei partir de um trabalho de recolha e recensão bibliográfica crítica que permita determinar quais as mais recentes tendências e dados nas várias áreas dos usos sexualizados das novas tecnologias por parte dos jovens e crianças. Por outro lado, um outro objectivo, paralelo, é o de identificar as lacunas existentes na pesquisa actual, e procurar entender de que forma a investigação para esta Tese de Doutoramento poderá contribuir para sanar essa lacuna. Este olhar crítico terá como bases uma visão pós-estruturalista e dos estudos culturais, de abordagem queer, olhando para os mais recentes avanços na concepção e construção de identidades como a juventude ou a sexualidade.

A segunda parte deste Trabalho Final compreenderá a descrição das problemáticas colocadas especificamente pela Tese de Doutoramento pretendida, bem como uma descrição de quais os processos metodológicos que se pretende levar a cabo, de forma a conseguir oferecer resposta às questões levantadas; a acompanhar esta descrição estará um cronograma dos vários passos da investigação.

Neste caso em particular, alguns dos campos a serem revistos bibliograficamente são: a concepção sociológica e filosófica de identidade, sexualidade e orientação sexual, juventude, sujeito e sexo; os significados e debates em torno da pornografia; a noção de autonomia e literacia para os jovens, dentro e fora do contexto da cibercultura; os vários papéis que os jovens podem adoptar enquanto utilizadores, participantes e produtores de conteúdos; a retórica representacional e mediática do pânico moral; o papel específico das crianças e jovens dentro do dispositivo de sexualidade foucauldiano; o desenrolar da constituição de uma cidadania da intimidade e sexual nos jovens; a educação sexual na medida em que congrega questões de mediação escolar, parental e sócio-cultural, para além dos novos media.

As metodologias empregues pretendem, não o estabelecimento de uma amostragem e resultados representativos, mas antes uma mistura entre uma componente quantitativa e uma componente qualitativa, recorrendo inclusivamente aos dados do Projecto EU Kids Online para estabelecer pontes de ligação com um estudo representativo. Esta segunda será a mais preponderante no contexto – o objectivo aqui é o de delinear uma pesquisa longitudinal, que esteja capacitada para abarcar conceptualmente o processo, precisamente por causa da importância do processo e da necessidade de encontrar a reflexividade dentro da investigação e através dela. A análise crítica do discurso, análise de conteúdo – com cruzamentos entre teoria foucauldiana, teorias feministas, grounded theory, análise narrativa – e um constante trabalho de reflexão com os participantes da investigação serão ferramentas indispensáveis para tratar o material obtido através das várias rondas de entrevistas planeadas.

Por fim, tomando a abordagem da investigação académica como uma prática politicamente engajada e apreciando o lugar de privilégio que a academia é e constitui, haverá uma preocupação fundamental com a procura de pontes entre os resultados obtidos e a sua divulgação junto de stakeholders e responsáveis por políticas públicas.

Experiences of AIDS-related bereavement among gay men: Implications for care

by Adrian Coyle

Co-authored with Clare Wright. Published in 1996 in Mortality, 1(3), 267-282. Please contact me if you would like a copy of the complete paper but experience difficulties in locating it.

Investigating Socio-technical Requirements for an Inclusive Medical Classification

by Fernando Figueira Filho

Countertransference issues in psychotherapy with lesbian and gay clients

by Adrian Coyle

Co-authored with Martin Milton and Charles Legg. Published in 2005 in the European Journal of Psychotherapy,Counselling and Health, 7, 181-197. A manuscript version of this paper can be downloaded from http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/1709/1/fulltext.pdf

This article briefly reviews literature on responses towards same-sex (lesbian and gay) sexualities from... more This article briefly reviews literature on responses towards same-sex (lesbian and gay) sexualities from psychoanalytic and ‘lesbian and gay affirmative’ psychotherapeutic perspectives. An analysis is presented of reports of countertransferential reactions to lesbian and gay clients, obtained from interviews with 14 psychotherapists who work in a lesbian and gay affirmative manner and 18 clients who had received affirmative psychotherapy. Data were subjected to grounded analysis. Participants consistently attended to the thoughts, feelings and values that therapists held in relation to lesbian and gay clients and how these affected the meanings and practices available to them. These were linked with the therapist’s sexual identity among other factors. Negative countertransferential reactions were regarded as potentially occurring among heterosexual and lesbian and gay therapists and were seen as arising from therapists’ conscious and unconscious fears about same-sex sexualities. These findings indicate a need to continue debating these issues more widely in the professional arena.

Consumer Roles in Brand Culture and Value Co-Creation in Virtual Communities

by Jason C. Healy

Co-authored with McDonagh, P., Journal of Business Research, forthcoming, in-press.

    Using a Netnographic Grounded Theory approach to an online fan forum, a Virtual Community (VC), this... more     Using a Netnographic Grounded Theory approach to an online fan forum, a Virtual Community (VC), this article considers brand culture and value co-creation. The research site is a VC containing football fans who are viewed as stakeholders of the organisation Liverpool Football Club. Following a service-dominant logic (SDL) and consumer culture theory (CCT) approaches, analysis is conducted on fan consumer behaviour leading to the submission of a Typology of Seven Consumer Community Cultural Co-creative Roles. The authors reflect on existing theoretical consumer responses to market offerings of exit, voice, loyalty, and twist, found in extant literature; adopting these as four co-creative roles. This study contributes three new consumer co-creative roles of entry, re-entry, and non-entry. Managerial implications of the typology are discussed.

Analyzing the Indicators and Requirements in Main Components of Enterprise Architecture Methodology Development using Grounded Theory in Qualitative Methods

by Edi Triono Nuryatno

Publish in 2011 Society of Interdisciplinary Business Research Conference on Interdisciplinary Business & Economics Research: "Advancing Knowledge from Interdisciplinary Perspectives", Proceeding available on http://www.ssrn.com/link/2011-SIBR-Conf.html and http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1676069

Publish in Journal Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods – Special Topics e-Journal, Vol. 4, No. 48: July 1, 2011, available on http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1676069

Co-authored with Dr. Jaka Sembiring and Yudi S. Gondokaryono, Ph.D

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Analyzing the Indicators and Requirements in Main Components of Enterprise Architecture Methodology Development using... more Analyzing the Indicators and Requirements in Main Components of Enterprise Architecture Methodology Development using Grounded Theory in Qualitative Methods

Many organizations apply EA as part of their IT management and planning activities. From their perspective, it would seem that EA should play an important role in strategic planning, IT-Business alignment and prioritization. They might see that right decisions means decision driven or guided by EA, and that right results mean using EA to assure that IT-Business projects do improve IT’s bottom line impact. Today we know the four top EA frameworks, which are often used in preparing the EA. The four top EA frameworks are the Zachman, Gartner, TOGAF and FEA. But in reality we have to be sure whether the four top EA frameworks can be directly adopted into organizations. To answer these questions, we conducted a study of the basic functions and staging in the development of EA in order to obtain certainty on the indicators and requirements in main components of EA methodology development.

We divide the research stage into 5 phases, where each phase will contribute in the form of research methods that will produce main components of indicators and requirements in EA methodology development. Our main research focus is as follows; find out the basic functions of an EA by using theoretical perspectives; find out what stage in EA development; find out the main components for the EA methodology development; perform gap analysis on EA methodology; find out the IT values in the EA methodology development; obtain the indicators and requirements in main components of EA methodology development. In this study we will use qualitative methods with a strategy of inquiry using grounded theory. This process involves using multiple stages of data collection and refinements and finding interrelationship of categories of information. Two primary characteristics of this method are the constant comparison of data with emerging categories and theoretical sampling of different perspective to maximize the similarities and the differences of information.

Keywords: Enterprise Architecture, IS/IT Strategy, Methodology, Grounded Theory, Qualitative Method

The compulsive cycle and the development of nicotine addiction

by Orsolya Selymes

Exploring Distributed Agile Projects: A Grounded Theory Perspective

by Siva Dorairaj

The success of Agile projects encourages practitioners to
incorporate Agile methods in distributed projects. Most... more The success of Agile projects encourages practitioners to
incorporate Agile methods in distributed projects. Most of the Agile methods, however, were developed to work successfully for collocated teams. This paper outlines the proposed research on distributed Agile projects. We exploring distributed Agile projects using grounded theory methodology. We aim to understand the challenges faced by Agile practitioners in distributed projects, identify the key success factors in distributed Agile projects, and collate the strategies adopted by Agile practitioners to manage distributed Agile projects.

The returns management process in supply chain strategy

by Ivan Russo

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT, vol. 37 , n. 7 , 2007 , pp. 568-592

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider theory development related to returns
management within supply... more Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider theory development related to returns
management within supply chain strategy. The marketing/logistics relationship relative to the returns
management process is investigated.
Design/methodology/approach – Grounded theory qualitative methodology. Managers in five
Italian firms, across marketing and logistics roles, at strategic and operational levels were interviewed.
Findings – Four key findings emerged: strong evidence exists that strategic goals and policies are
being implemented; cross-functional integration within the firms is broader than was expected; the
more integrated firms deal better with external factors influencing the returns management process;
and supply chain orientation – including forward and reverse supply chain flows – is linked to
effective returns management.
Research limitations/implications – Firms were pre-selected for participation, due to researcher’s
time constraints. Additionally, given the pan-European approach to many supply chains, this Italian
research needs to be replicated in other (western and eastern) European settings to determine the
robustness of the factors posited to be important to the returns management process. Finally, other
functional areas beyond marketing and logistics are involved in returns management, and will be more
formally incorporated into future research.
Practical implications – Returns management – increasingly being recognized as affecting
competitive positioning – provides an important link between marketing and logistics. The broad
nature of its cross-functional impact suggests that firms would benefit by improving internal
integration efforts. In particular, a firm’s ability to react to and plan for the influence of external factors
on the returns management process is improved by such internal integration.
Originality/value – Returns management has been under-represented in much of the logistics and
supply chain literature. This paper represents the first stage of an on-going research project aimed at
providing a theoretical framework for understanding the returns management process within a firm’s
supply chain strategy.
Keywords Returns, Supply chain management, Qualitative methods, Europe
Paper type Research paper