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The Gentle Art of Retroduction: Critical Realism, Cultural Political Economy and Critical Grounded Theory

Belfrage, Claes, Hauf, Felix·2017·Organization Studies
DOI 10.1177/0170840616663239
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This article, first, proposes critical grounded theory (CGT) as a way to develop systematically an array of methods and theoretical propositions into a coherent critical methodology for organization studies (and beyond). Second, it demonstrates CGT’s usefulness through a case study of competing recovery projects from the Icelandic financial crisis. CGT is developed in engagement with the emerging paradigm of cultural political economy (CPE) and its preferred method of critical discourse analysis (CDA). CPE analyses the evolution of ‘economic imaginaries’ in both their structural/material and semiotic/discursive dimensions. This requires a critical realist, multi-dimensional research strategy which emphasizes ethnographic methods and substantial theoretical and historical work. The proposed methodology of CGT enables a retroductive research process that combines deductive theoretical deskwork with inductive fieldwork enabled by grounded theory tools to analyse organizational process, stability and change.

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Authors
Belfrage, C., & Hauf, F.
Affiliations
  • University of Liverpool (GB)
  • Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
Corresponding author
Belfrage, Claes
ORCID
Belfrage, Claes
Venue
Organization Studies
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2016-09-25
Volume
38
Issue
2
Pages
251-271
ISSN
  • 0170-8406 (ISSN-L)
  • 1741-3044
DOI
10.1177/0170840616663239
OpenAlex
W2511869857
Semantic Scholar
a1a6db635df4151ecf8a231b0ee5d0e36af0d7c8
Cited by
259
References
48
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 47 · 2023: 110 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1
FWCI
24.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Organization Studies (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Realism in Sociology
  • Social Sciences › Education › Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
Keywords
critical realism, cultural political economy, critical discourse analysis, economic imaginaries, Icelandic financial crisis, critical methodology, organizational change, organizational stability, ethnographic methods

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