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What can phenomenology offer the consumer?
Wilson, Tony - In: Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 15 (2012) 3, pp. 230-241
such practice, it is often deemed to draw upon phenomenology. Returning to the philosophers (Gadamer, Heidegger, Merleau …‐Ponty and Ricoeur) who shaped phenomenology, the purpose of this paper is to argue that consumer studies should further …‐for‐being”. Hermeneutic phenomenology is thus a philosophical resource offering appropriate spatio‐temporal images for people responding to …
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No value-in-itself in About and on Behalf of Scriptum Est
Suominen, Vesa - In: Journal of Documentation 73 (2017) 6, pp. 1380-1386
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to comment on Steven Laporte’s review of About and on Behalf of Scriptum Est by Suominen with the aim of clarifying conceptual confusions related to the notion of constitutive and the notion of value-in-itself in the review. Design/methodology/approach The...
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On the possibility of quantitative‐mathematical social science, chiefly economics
Drechsler, Wolfgang - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) 4/5, pp. 246-259
Argues preliminarily that quantitative‐mathematical social science, including economics, is not possible because it applies a method useful in other areas to a field to which it cannot be applied and because the truth claim of science so conceived is self‐referential to begin with. The...
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Reviving organisational memetics through Cultural Linnæanism
Sinclair Lord, Andrew - In: International Journal of Organizational Analysis 20 (2012) 3, pp. 349-370
Purpose – The initial purpose of this paper is to review the explanatory power that memetics promised for socio‐cultural evolutionary theory, for organisational adaptation, and emergent patterns of traits. Second, to argue that philosophical accusations and premature demands have retarded a...
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Analysing accounting discourse: avoiding the “fallacy of internalism”
Ferguson, John - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 20 (2007) 6, pp. 912-934
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on John B. Thompson's “tripartite approach” for the analysis of mass media communication, highlighting how this methodological framework can help address some of the shortcomings apparent in extant studies on accounting which purport to...
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Methodological themes
Parker, Lee D.; Roffey, Bet H. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 10 (1997) 2, pp. 212-247
as symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and hermeneutics. Describes the basic principles and methods of grounded …
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Phenomenology and information studies
Budd, John M. - In: Journal of Documentation 61 (2005) 1, pp. 44-59
Purpose – To examine work on phenomenology and determine what information studies can learn and use from that work …. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a literature‐based conceptual analysis of pioneering work in phenomenology … – The literature on phenomenology contains thought that is directly relevant to information studies and information work …
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Document phenomenology: a framework for holistic analysis
Gorichanaz, Tim; Latham, Kiersten F. - In: Journal of Documentation 72 (2016) 6, pp. 1114-1133
as an epistemic aim of documents, which can be approached through phenomenology. Findings A phenomenological framework …
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Expanding the current tacit/explicit knowledge dichotomy encompassing situated and theoretical/normative knowledge: a phenomenological perspective
Silva, Sergio Evangelista; Silva, André Luís - In: Journal of Documentation 79 (2022) 4, pp. 955-972
Purpose This article introduces a model of knowledge creation in consciousness, the creation of explicit knowledge in six forms and its register and organisation in documents. Design/methodology/approach Assuming the premise of three realms of reference to knowledge and two forms of reference to...
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“How didst thou come beneath the murky darkness?”: sense-making in light of the ancient Greeks and in the spirit of Hegel
Gross, Margaret - In: Journal of Documentation 79 (2023) 6, pp. 1369-1379
again in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit before the idea is picked up again in twentieth century philosophy and library …
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