Perspective - Making Doubt Generative: Rethinking the Role of Doubt in the Research Process

By Karen Locke, Karen Golden-Biddle, Maryann P. Feldman. Organ. Sci., 2008

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy

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From Synchronizing to Harmonizing: The Process of Authenticating Multiple Work Identities (2018, methodology): “After each interview was conducted, we followed an abductive process (Locke, Golden-Biddle, and Feldman, 2008) in which we wrote memos to each other to record emerging observations, share our intuitive beliefs about what might be happening, and build some preliminary understanding of what we were…”
The affective foundations of high-reliability organizing (2014, background): “The increased prosocial motivation caused individuals to focus more closely on the failures that could harm their peers and learning-oriented behaviors.”
From hero to villain to hero: Making experience sensible through embodied narrative sensemaking (2012, unknown): “In addition, as Locke et al. (2008) note, abduction is itself an embodied experience in which ‘developing new ideas [is] bodily conducted and bodily felt’ (p. 916) – a living sensation of doubt, imagination, and frustration, etc.”
Achieving Rigor in Qualitative Analysis: The Role of Active Categorization in Theory Building (2020, unknown): “…is important in theory development because the initial questions and puzzles arise from discrepancies between what researchers notice in the data in light of their understanding of past theories, which can help them ab-duct new theoretical insights (Locke et al., 2008; Timmermans & Tavory, 2012).”
Moving Beyond Templates: A Bricolage Approach to Conducting Trustworthy Qualitative Research (2020, unknown): “With this approach comes experimentation and surprise (Locke et al., 2008).”
Moving Forward: Developing Theoretical Contributions in Management Studies (2014, background): “Abductive reasoning is a process of generating explanatory hypotheses around ‘surprising facts’ or ‘empirical mysteries’ (Alvesson and Kärreman, 2007; Locke et al., 2008).”
Reflections on Enacted Sensemaking in the Bhopal Disaster (2010, unknown): “Given the potential tenacity of sense made in the service of justification, newer work on doubt assumes considerable importance (e.g. Locke et al., 2008; Perin, 2005, p. 213 on doubt and discovery).”
A Dynamic Process Model for Finding Informants and Gaining Access in Qualitative Research (2016, background): “…this process, we engaged in a ‘‘living conversation’’ (Cunliffe, 2011, p. 665), facilitated through biweekly Skype conversations that allowed us to (re)interpret one another’s stories while (re)assigning meaning to particular interpretations that came to us as a surprise (see Locke et al., 2008).”
Using Theory Elaboration to Make Theoretical Advancements (2017, background): “Locke, Golden-Biddle, and Feldman (2008) contrasted abduction with other forms of reasoning by pointing out that “deduction proves that something must be; induction shows that something actually is operative; abduction merely suggests that something may be” (p. 907).”
Entrepreneurial alertness as a pathway to strategic decisions and organizational performance (2018, background): “That is, they embrace doubt, which energizes exploration (Locke et al., 2008).”