Phenomenological reduction and emergent design: Complementary methods for leadership narrative interpretation and metanarrative development
Citation
Gilstrap, Donald L. 2007. Phenomenological reduction and emergent design: Complementary methods for leadership narrative interpretation and metanarrative development. -- International Journal of Qualitative Methods, v.6 (1): pp.95-113
Abstract
The author's intent in this paper is to discuss new methods for conducting research on and connecting the works of chaos and complexity theorists with interpretive, hermeneutical, and phenomenological theorists as a multiple-method mode of inquiry. He proposes a methodological design that incorporates a recursive process of phenomenological reduction to find connectedness and generate shared meanings among the research performed by leadership theorists. He also provides an emergent metanarrative method for presenting research results, using a complexity-based, interpretive framework.
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© 2007 Gilstrap. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.