Understanding research philosophy and approaches to theory development Chapter 4 Understanding research philosophy and approaches to theory development
Figure 4.1 The research ‘onion’ Source: © 2015 Mark Saunders, Phillip Lewis and Adrian Thornhill
Figure 4.2 Developing your research philosophy: a reflexive process Source: © Alexandra Bristow and Mark Saunders 2015
Figure 4.3 Four paradigms of organisational analysis Source: Developed from Burrell and Morgan (1982) Social Paradigms and Organisational Analysis. Reproduced with permission of Ashgate Publishing Company
Figure 4.4 Critical realist stratified ontology Source: Developed from Bhaskar (1978)