EVALUATING THE REFLECTION OF QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGNS IN MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND THE IGNORANCE OF THE QUALITATIVE DESIGN BY THE POSITIVIST TRADITION
It should firstly be noted that this study, which was initially not constructed as a research article, is grounded on personal impressions acquired in the academic world over years. The purpose of this study is to reveal quantitative and qualitative studies published in Turkey. To this end, the stud...
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Fırat University
2019
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| Sumario: | It should firstly be noted that this study, which was initially not constructed as a research article, is grounded on personal impressions acquired in the academic world over years. The purpose of this study is to reveal quantitative and qualitative studies published in Turkey. To this end, the study used five-years data based on research designs, methods and analyzes to discuss why the positivist tradition ignores the qualitative research design. It does not intend to put a blame on positivism. On the contrary, it discusses, though briefly, the reasons for positivist tradition’s ignoring qualitative design, valued by positivism. The study does not have a specific theoretical basis. Thus, it should be mentioned that the study does not aim to “see”, but to “look”. The sample consisted of 490 papers presented in Turkish organizational behavior congresses. The study used document analysis and percentage and revealed the course of studies. The analysis results showed that quantitative research composes 8% of the total papers. The papers based on quantitative research design, which are already limited in number, include content analysis studies, case studies, and phenomenology studies but include no ethnographic research, grounded theory research, and narrative inquiry. Gradual increase in the number of qualitative studies is regarded as a positive development. We think that this will cause the quality of qualitative studies to be questioned in the course of time. Therefore, the study recommends qualitative studies not to be interpreted from a positivist perspective. |
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