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Showing 1 to 20 of 221 for “"Critical realist"”.
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A critical realist perspective on lesson study
… of lesson study, and to theory, through a critical realist approach to professional learning. The literature and my personal experiences are used to highlight various issues with lesson study implementation indicating it might not be sustainable within the English secondary school context. …
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Low-technology innovation in a sectoral system:a critical realist perspective
… of innovation (SSI) perspective. Embedded in the critical realist paradigm, this study espouses the notion of a stratified ontology. Moreover, it considers innovation to be systemic and nonsequential influenced by multiple objects and their relations. Deriving from a systematic literature review, …
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The Colorado Community Organizing Collaborative: A Critical Realist Case Study
… ontological and epistemological foundations of critical realism posed by Margaret Archer (2000) to deepen social work's understanding of collaboration. Through the use of Danermark et al.'s (2002) stages of explanatory research based on critical realism, the author found that agential and …
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Joining up public services : a critical realist framework for holistic governance
… Dimensions Framework is underpinned by realist assumptions, and the methods used to evaluate it apply critical realist social theories in innovative ways.</p> <p>The Operational Dimensions Framework was originally developed when the author was working as a regeneration programmes manager …
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Service innovation implementation in international hotel groups: a critical realist study
… out to European countries in 2011. Guided by a critical realist philosophy that perceives the world as mind-independent but accessible only through our subjective interpretations, the role of the researcher in this study was to approach innovation implementation by searching for valid …
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Towards a Political Economy of Corporate Governance: A Critical Realist Analysis
… it aims to explain CG practices using a critical realist lens: internal conversation theory (ICT). To achieve the research objectives, a theoretically informed analysis of in-depth interview findings triangulated with a documentary survey and direct observation is undertaken. The research …
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The emergence of dynamic capabilities in SMEs: A critical realist study
… research draws on a single case study using a critical realism perspective to study the emergence of dynamic capabilities. The case firm is a small Irish owned print firm that has evolved into an international brand and artwork management business. The study draws on interviews, company records …
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A critical realist evaluation of end of life care in care homes.
… care homes. A two-phased study design utilising Critical Realist Evaluation was used to address this gap in knowledge and achieve the study aim. Qualitative data was collected (using focus groups and semi-structured interviews) from three care homes in the South West of England from participants …
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Social exclusion and young people: a critical realist strong late modern analytic
… existence, and thus their social exclusion. This critical realist perspective rationalises an in-depth, qualitative, tripartite critical realist framework for data collection and analysis, focussed on the real underlying mechanisms reproducing social reality, and thus social exclusion. The …
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Deep mediatization in education: school teachers’ voices using a critical realist ontology
… Considering those shortcomings, I adopt critical realism as a complementary metatheory to develop a combined approach in which mediatization can dialogue with critical realist ontology, giving cultural contextual elements and agential power more weight and influence. Likewise, I also …
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Exploring ‘People’ as the key element in enterprise architecture implementation: A Critical Realist Perspective
… aspects of EA implementation, this thesis adopts critical realism (CR) and its most recognised methodology, the morphogenetic approach (MA). Realism emphasises ontology and strongly argues that ontology, methodology and epistemology are closely linked – as Fleetwood (2005, p. 197) suggests, …
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Corporate responsibility reporting in the foodservice sector in the UK: a critical realist perspective
… the UK foodservice sector is analysed through a critical evaluation of a range of reporting guidance, a purposive sampling of the views of experts operating within the foodservice sector and an evaluation of the CR reporting of a UK foodservice company: a revelatory case. The critical analysis of …
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The internationalisation of the small-to-medium sized enterprise (SME): a critical realist approach
… of the United Kingdom. The research adopts a critical realist philosophy, used by researchers to explain the decision-making process, and applies it in a different context to provide insights into the internationalisation process of the SME. A critical realist approach is used as it enables an …
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Solidarity or stigma? A critical realist exploration of the anatomy of Irish welfare stigma
Using qualitative methods couched in a critical realist paradigm of inquiry, this thesis is concerned with stigma, in the context of Irish social welfare, and with the experiences of working age recipients in particular. Over the last decade or so, and particularly since the economic crash of 2008, …
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Spiritual Care in Healthcare: A Critical Realist Investigation into General Practice Nurses’ Perceptions and Practices
… this thesis employs Bhaskar’s theory of critical realism as the theoretical framework and a mixed methods methodology gathering both quantitative and qualitative data. The study drew on data from an online questionnaire to investigate GP nurses’ underlying perceptions of these concepts, …
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Structure, institutions and NGOisation: a critical realist approach to normative change in Myanmar civil society
… I analyse these changes in Myanmar using critical realism and the thought of Antonio Gramsci, and show how the reorganisation of state power and contractual, legal and ethical relations between state and civil society have led to the emergence of an institution of organisation. Tendencies …
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A critical realist examination of the inhibitors of double loop learning in an agile adoption
… loop learning and the Agile adoption. This is a critical realist study, which acknowledges that the real world is a complex one, hierarchically structured into layers. An a priori framework is created to represent these layers, which are categorised as: the Agile context, the power mechanisms, …
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Explaining organisational business process adoption mechanisms - A critical realist perspective on social reflexivity and process affordances
… examination of such causal social relations, a critical realist perspective using a morphogenetic approach is adopted to retrospectively analyse the social dynamics that governed the courses of action in a single process change project within an Australian university. This study gives insights …
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