MGMT 8104 Session 03: 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.

Video Clip

• Process Research Models

Listen

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

Reading

• Engaged Scholarship, Chapter 7

• Langley et al., Process Studies of Change in Organization and Management: Unveiling Temporality, Activity, and Flow, AMJ, 2013

• Supplementary Readings

  • Poole, et al. (2000) ch. 3–5 on process research design.

  • Polkinghorne, D. (1988). Narrative knowing and the human sciences (SUNY series in philosophy of the social sciences), ch 1,2,7. Albany: State University of New York Press.

  • Pentland, “Building Process Theory with Narrative: from Description to Explanation,” 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.

Submit your questions/comments about video lectures and readings for Session 10 on Process Designs