The General Method of Theory-Building Research in Applied Disciplines

By S. Lynham. 2002

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Organisational resilience: development of a conceptual framework for organisational responses (2011, methodology): “The development of this conceptual framework will follow the work of Flynn et al. (1990), Meredith (1993, 1998), Lynham (2002) and Stuart et al. (2002) in relation to a theory building approach.”
The Evolution of Capital Theory: A Critique of a Theory of Social Capital and Implications for HRD (2002, background): “The laws describe how the units interact with each other and are not about the conceptual dimensions of each unit (Lynham, 2002).”
Organizational resilience: a capability-based conceptualization (2019, background): “The result of this process is ‘‘an explicit, informed, conceptual framework’’ (Lynham 2002, p. 232) of organizational resilience that fosters a comprehensive understanding of the resilience phenomenon as well as underlying dynamics (see Meredith 1993; Jabareen 2009; Burnard and Bhamra 2011).”
Studying scenario planning: Theory, research suggestions, and hypotheses (2005, neutral): “Other methods include Lynham’s [7] general method and Van de Ven’s [8] diamond model.”
Performance management theory: A look from the performer's perspective with implications for HRD (2007, positive): “Goal-setting, control, and social cognition theories are not new conceptualizations, but have been cycled through the theory-building research process described by Lynham ( 2002 ).”
A theoretical model of the antecedents and outcomes of employee engagement (2014, methodology): “In addition, categoric laws are “symmetrical in nature” (Lynham, 2002, p. 249), meaning that it does not matter whether one particular unit or the others come first.”