Researching “Back Home”
探讨了国际管理研究者在自己文化背景下进行研究(即“回到家乡”)的优势与挑战,基于作者经验和自传式民族志文献,指出其四大优势(易进入、低资源需求、易建立信任、少翻译问题)和三大挑战(缺乏批判距离、角色冲突、偶然性局限)。
The challenges facing international management researchers conducting research in foreign contexts are increasingly well understood. However, for a growing group of researchers, the problem is very different: Rather than being foreign researchers researching in an unfamiliar context, they are insiders conducting research in their own cultural context for publication in international journals. In this article, the authors draw on their own experiences and on the literature on autoethnography to illustrate the strengths and challenges of researching “back home.” In particular, they argue that autoethnographic approaches have four important strengths— ease of access, reduced resource requirements, ease of establishing trust and rapport, and reduced problems with translation—but at the same time pose three important challenges— lack of critical distance, role conflict, and the limits of serendipity.