Pluralist Project Research: Drawing on Critical Systems Thinking to Manage Research Across Paradigms

Pollack, JB

Pluralist Project Research: Drawing on Critical Systems Thinking to Manage Research Across Paradigms

Pollack, JB

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Publisher:: Copenhagen Business School Press
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Novel Approaches to Organizational Project Management Research: Translational and Transformational, 2013, 1, pp. 452 - 471
Issue Date:: 2013-01

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dc.contributor.author	Pollack, JB https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8879-9408	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Drouin, N	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Muller, R	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Sankaran, S	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Novel Approaches to Organizational Project Management Research: Translational and Transformational, 2013, 1, pp. 452 - 471	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/31561
dc.description.abstract	Pluralist research has been widely acclaimed as providing benefits that research which relies on a single technique, methodology or paradigm, cannot. However, there are very few examples of project management research which attempt to bridge methodological or paradigmatic divides. This chapter draws on the field of Critical Systems Thinking, a field of research which has a long history of exploring how approaches to managing research can be combined in practice, to explore opportunities to enrich project management research. Of particular significance in developing the discussion of pluralism in project management research are: clearly distinguishing the level to which a research approach belongs within a paradigm; Reed's four strategies for combining methodologies; the oblique use of methods; Grafting and Embedding; and the more general cases of pluralism in Series or Parallel.	en_US
dc.publisher	Copenhagen Business School Press	en_US
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dc.title	Pluralist Project Research: Drawing on Critical Systems Thinking to Manage Research Across Paradigms	en_US
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Abstract:

Pluralist research has been widely acclaimed as providing benefits that research which relies on a single technique, methodology or paradigm, cannot. However, there are very few examples of project management research which attempt to bridge methodological or paradigmatic divides. This chapter draws on the field of Critical Systems Thinking, a field of research which has a long history of exploring how approaches to managing research can be combined in practice, to explore opportunities to enrich project management research. Of particular significance in developing the discussion of pluralism in project management research are: clearly distinguishing the level to which a research approach belongs within a paradigm; Reed's four strategies for combining methodologies; the oblique use of methods; Grafting and Embedding; and the more general cases of pluralism in Series or Parallel.

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