Criteria for evaluating research: the unique adequacy requirement of methods

Rooke, John; Kagioglou, Mike

doi:10.1080/01446190701268855

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“…Garfinkel & Wieder (1992) state that this might be taken as a criterion for adequate ethnography. The strong requirement concerns the reporting of research (Rooke & Kagioglou, 2007). It demands that the methods of analysis used to report on a setting should be derived from that setting.…”

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“…The intention is to privilege the understandings of a setting that the members of that setting themselves have of it over the theoretically informed understandings that researchers bring to that setting from outside (Garfinkel 1984;Garfinkel & Weider 1996;Garfinkel 2002). The consequences of the application of UA in management studies have been previously explored in Rooke & Kagioglou (2007) and Rooke, Koskela & Kagioglou (2009). The major consequence in the current context is that, while lean knowledge management would seek to minimise the waste that occurs through loss of knowledge, these efforts are to be initiated and evaluated in terms that are provided by (and within) the setting for which they are intended.…”

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Using the physical properties of artefacts to manage through‐life knowledge flows in the built environment: an initial exploration

Rooke

Koskela

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Construction Management and Economics

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The KIM Grand Challenge project attempted to develop an approach to through-life management of built facilities based on a dichotomous conception of knowledge, which proved to be deficient.Here, a tri-partite analysis is offered, suggesting that knowledge can be analysed as a flow, consisting of social practices, information and physical properties. Literature on physical properties from design studies, production management and ethnomethodology is briefly reviewed to demonstrate the information bearing functions of physical properties.Fieldwork conforming to the UA requirement was carried out in several settings. Safety barriers on construction sites were found to have informational properties beyond their function as a physical barrier. The quality of information delivered by wayfinding signs was found to depend upon the physical placement of the signs in relation to the surrounding environment and the physical layout of the sign itself. It was found that social practices are institutionalised to support knowledge flow when the signs fail. The flow of information necessary for the maintenance of an oxygen cylinder in a hospital was found to break down due to its failure to mesh with work practice.Rooke, Rooke, Koskela, Tzortzopoulos, Physical Properties 2010 1Elements of knowledge management, ethnomethodology, production management and design studies might be integrated to form a hybrid discipline.

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Using the physical properties of artefacts to manage through‐life knowledge flows in the built environment: an initial exploration

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Construction Management and Economics

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“…Uniquely Adequate (UA) (Strong Requirement). The twin requirements of UA (Garfinkel & Weider 1992;Garfinkel 2002) have been introduced to the construction management literature elsewhere (Rooke 1997;Rooke & Kagioglou 2007). Briefly: the weak requirement stipulates that the author of a research report should have an everyday practical competence in the setting reported; the strong requirement restricts the analytical devices used in the report to those already present in the setting.…”

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Informality in organization and research: a review and a proposal

Rooke

Koskela

Kagioglou

2009

Construction Management and Economics

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The growing interest in informal and emergent features of organizations has accompanied changes both in the dominant forms of organization and prevailing academic views about how best to think about and research them. It is argued here that currently espoused dichotomous characterizations of both organizations and research approaches are over-simplified and misleading.A review of types of organisation research is conducted and it is suggested that the relationship between theory and data collection provides a more detailed and illuminating taxonomy than a distinction between qualitative and quantitative research. Two major distinctions are proposed: [1] between theory driven and phenomenon driven research; [2] between descriptive and prescriptive theory. It is suggested that organization theory is properly prescriptive in nature.The place of informality in organization and management studies is explicated, drawing on insights from Wittgenstein and ethnomethodology (EM). A distinction is drawn between [1] the degree of formality in particular organizational settings and [2] the necessarily informal foundations of formal organizational schemes and methods.Finally, the organization of research itself is addressed. A prescriptive theory (TFV) is suggested as a means of organizing and accounting for the research process. This suggestion serves as both [1] a proposal for research management and [2] an illustration of the relationship between theory and organization.

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“…As the areas of research in construction management are diverse, different discipline-based assumptions and training can influence the treatment and approach of studies and assessments (Rooke & Kagioglou 2007;Runeson and Skitmore 2008). For example, an economic view of informality is often focused on identifying and quantifying illegal economic activities and devising regulations and strategies to manage them.…”

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Investigating informality in construction: philosophy, paradigm and practice

Gajendran

Brewer

Runeson

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The complex interrelationships commonly enacted as a consequence of project team activity take a number of different forms, including those formally dictated by contract conditions. However it is becoming increasingly apparent that project performance is affected by informal relationships, though their investigation is notoriously difficult. This paper proposes that these difficulties arise partly from the nature of the informalities themselves, but also as a consequence of the philosophical position taken by researchers and their consequent methodological/paradigmatic posture, and its impact upon those being studied. It consequently proposes a subjectivist investigative framework that accommodates multiple philosophical points of departure, matching them to a range of alternative methodologies, and indicates the desirability of blending to reflect the peculiarities of each context under investigation. The framework also accommodates the practicalities of putting complex methodologies into action. The paper concludes that this framework presents opportunities to conduct rigorous in-situ investigations of informality at work, leading to authentic and deep insights that would otherwise remain unseen

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Criteria for evaluating research: the unique adequacy requirement of methods

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

Using the physical properties of artefacts to manage through‐life knowledge flows in the built environment: an initial exploration

Using the physical properties of artefacts to manage through‐life knowledge flows in the built environment: an initial exploration

Informality in organization and research: a review and a proposal

Investigating informality in construction: philosophy, paradigm and practice

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