The Contest Over Meaning: Hermeneutics as an Interpretive Methodology for Understanding Texts

Prasad, Anshuman

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“…Derived from these conceptual ideas, Gadamer (2013) criticizes the ambition of "empathetic understanding" (see Prasad, 2002). Interpreters will always fail to understand the intended meaning of a text due to the situated and participatory nature of understanding.…”

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“…1929) and Paul Ricoeur (1913. Gadamer is especially concerned with the constitutive factors involved in the process of understanding (Prasad, 2002). Three main conceptual ideas about the nature and process of understanding can be distilled from his main opus "Truth and Method" (Gadamer, 2013;orig-inally published in 1960 as "Wahrheit und Methode").…”

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“…Accordingly, interpretation is not a unidirectional acquisition but a situated participation in the tradition to which the text belongs (Prasad, 2002).…”

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“…In Gadamer's view, researchers cannot perceive meaning objectively and directly, but their interpretation is always influenced by the social practices and "traditions" in which they are embedded. In Gadamer's (2013) conceptual language, the interpreters are bound to their "hermeneutic horizons" constituted by "prejudices", i.e., their particular cultural, political, aesthetic or ethical beliefs embedded in the historical time and place (Prasad, 2002). Gadamer (2013) then uses the metaphor of a "dialogue" to conceptualize the process of understanding.…”

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“…1 Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics is concerned with the act of understanding and grapples with its implications for the application of methods in the social sciences (see Barrett, Powley, & Pearce, 2011;Miller, 2005;Prasad, 2002, for overviews relevant for MOS). Although philosophical hermeneutics sporadically served organizational scholars as methodological guidelines for their qualitative inquiry (Heracleous & Barrett, 2001;Phillips & Brown, 1993), its epistemological implications remain "mostly ignored" or "only partial [ly]" acknowledged (Prasad, 2002, p. 13).…”

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This article explores methodological problems of qualitative research templates, that is, the Eisenhardt and the Gioia case study approaches, which are relevant for the business and society (B&S) scholarship and outlines a reflexive historical research methodology that has the potential to face these challenges. Building on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics, we draw critical attention to qualitative B&S research and frame the methodological problems identified as the normative challenges of qualitative research, that is, to productively deal with both the researchers’ norms and the research subjects’ norms. We then introduce the reflexive historical case study (RHCS), a distinct research strategy to face normative challenges based on philosophical hermeneutics and the interpretive tradition of studying organizations. This research approach aims at theory elaboration while its mode of enquiry is reflexive. By explicating three of its key characteristics and using a case example to illustrate our approach, we demonstrate how B&S scholars can benefit from the “temporal filter” of the historical lens and from reflexive concerns about the nature of theory and empirical material. To tap the potential of historical research, we finally envision a research program for studying issues and debates associated with B&S scholarship.

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The Contest Over Meaning: Hermeneutics as an Interpretive Methodology for Understanding Texts

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