Integrating Positivist and Interpretive Approaches to Organizational Research
超越实证主义与解释主义方法的对立，提出一个整合框架，并用一项已发表的组织研究作为范例，对组织研究者选择或融合不同方法论有参考价值。
The interpretive approach to organizational research has been gaining increasing attention as a legitimate alternative to the more traditional positivist approach. The organizational literature has already provided thorough descriptions of each approach, and clarified the differences between them. Indeed, it often appears that the two approaches are opposed, with the differences irreconcilable. This paper will go beyond the differences and establish an integrated framework for the two approaches. An actual, published organizational study will be used as an exemplar for the integrated framework (Nardulli 1978, 1979).