1. Understanding research philosophy and approaches to theory development
Chapter 4
Understanding research philosophy
and approaches to theory development

2. Figure 4.1 The research ‘onion’
Source: © 2015 Mark Saunders, Phillip Lewis and Adrian Thornhill

3. Figure 4.2 Developing your research philosophy: a reflexive process
Source: © Alexandra Bristow and Mark Saunders 2015

4. 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

5. Figure 4.4 Critical realist stratified ontology
Source: Developed from Bhaskar (1978)