Marcelo de Souza Bispo and Silvia Gherardi
This paper aims to offer a perspective to interpret qualitative data drawing on the introduction of the notion of “embodied practice-based research”.
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Purpose
This paper aims to offer a perspective to interpret qualitative data drawing on the introduction of the notion of “embodied practice-based research”.
Design/methodology/approach
Drawing on a comprehensive literature review to support a meta-theoretical approach, we developed a theoretical essay.
Findings
The body is not only a field of studies but a mean of study as well. The embodied practice-based research is an inquiry style to access the tacit texture of social action and cognition.
Practical implications
Embodied practice-based research may impact qualitative researchers’ education and the way to report methodological proceedings and data report.
Originality/value
The core contribution of the paper is the introduction of a new research style able to change how researchers’ bodies may be used in qualitative management research.
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Marcelo de Souza Bispo and Erica Dayane Chaves Cavalcante
This paper aims to understand how members of an organization with different backgrounds form an inter-professional knowing (IPK) from a collective authorship practice (CAP).
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Purpose
This paper aims to understand how members of an organization with different backgrounds form an inter-professional knowing (IPK) from a collective authorship practice (CAP).
Design/methodology/approach
This is a qualitative research drawn on an ethnomethodological approach on the committee responsible for the public policies of the waterfront for the city of João Pessoa, Brazil. The researchers spent one year observing the committee’s meetings.
Findings
The main result points out that IPK is a singular practice that emerges from the organization members’ different backgrounds in a collective authorship process.
Practical implications
It may be possible to adopt the notion of CAP as a methodology to address complex organizational problems.
Originality/value
This paper presents the notion of IPK from a CAP based on an ethnomethodological approach.
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This study aims to theoretically introduce the notion of responsible managing as educational practice (RMEP).
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Purpose
This study aims to theoretically introduce the notion of responsible managing as educational practice (RMEP).
Design/methodology/approach
The study is an essay. Traditionally assumed as individual-driven, rational, neutral and unproblematic, the author alternatively considers management not as managerialism but as a social practice that needs to be responsible.
Findings
The author posits that responsible management involves educational experiences enacted through practical wisdom. In this context, education herein is understood not as a scholastic practice taught in business schools or offered within professional training, but that may occur in informal contexts such as managing.
Originality/value
RMEP may contribute to a better comprehension of responsible management in practice. The author draws on the epistemology of practices and the notion of phronesis to support his thesis – that managing can be responsible when assumed as an educative practice performed through practical wisdom and people’s mutual education.
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Lívia Veiga de Oliveira Bispo and Marluce Dantas de Freitas Lodi
The study aims to investigate how the action research contributes to the collective construction of a discipline in management. This issue was the motivation for the present…
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Purpose
The study aims to investigate how the action research contributes to the collective construction of a discipline in management. This issue was the motivation for the present study, which was developed from the experience of master's degree students attending the post-graduate program in management of an institution in the State of Bahia, Brazil.
Design/methodology/approach
The overall objective of this study is to understand the method's effectiveness for this aim, whereas the specific objectives are to identify the commitment of the subjects in the activities proposed and to assess the effectiveness of the use of active methods in the discipline construction. The theoretical background is regarding digital education transformation, active teaching methods and action research. As for the qualitative perspective, the methodological approach of choice was that of participant observation (for data collection) and content analysis.
Findings
It was possible to highlight the awakening of critical sense and the effectiveness of action research in enhancing the protagonism of the master's degree students in the construction of their own knowledge.
Originality/value
This study not only contributes to the field of applied social sciences but also opens a precedent for the experience of collective construction of a discipline in another area of knowledge by means of action research. Another factor demonstrating the relevance of this study is the production of essays and articles by master's degree students in which active methodologies were related to themes of interest.