Session 04: Process Research Designs

Topics

Show us the evidence for your story of how this process unfolded.

1. Process theory questions focus on order and sequence of events.

2. Narrative study designs.

3. Defining and measuring events or incidents.

4. Analyzing temporal patterns in event sequence data.

View Video lecture on Process Research Models

Listen to audio narration by Scott Poole on Building Process Theories, part one and part two

Read

• • Engaged Scholarship, Chapter 7

  • Langley et al., Process Studies, AMJ, 2013

  • Gaurd et al., Qualitative Approaches for Studying Innovation as Process, 2017

  • Supplementary Readings:

    • Polkinghorne, Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences, chapter 1, chapter 2 & chapter 7, 1988.

    • Pentland, “Building Process Theory with Narrative,” AMR 1999.

Notes: Class slides on process research design

Exercise: Complete this worksheet to design a process study of your research topic.

· Bring it to the next class for discussion.

· Example: Process research proposal by Yi Tang of 2017 class.

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