Hoflund A Bryce
School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA.
J Health Hum Serv Adm. 2013 Spring;35(4):469-504.
This paper describes how grounded theory was used to investigate the "black box" of network leadership in the creation of the National Quality Forum. Scholars are beginning to recognize the importance of network organizations and are in the embryonic stages of collecting and analyzing data about network leadership processes. Grounded theory, with its focus on deriving theory from empirical data, offers researchers a distinctive way of studying little-known phenomena and is therefore well suited to exploring network leadership processes. Specifically, this paper provides an overview of grounded theory, a discussion of the appropriateness of grounded theory to investigating network phenomena, a description of how the research was conducted, and a discussion of the limitations and lessons learned from using this approach.
本文描述了扎根理论如何被用于探究在创建国家质量论坛过程中网络领导力的“黑匣子”。学者们开始认识到网络组织的重要性，并且正处于收集和分析有关网络领导过程数据的初期阶段。扎根理论专注于从实证数据中推导理论，为研究人员提供了一种研究鲜为人知现象的独特方法，因此非常适合探索网络领导过程。具体而言，本文概述了扎根理论，讨论了扎根理论对于调查网络现象的适用性，描述了研究是如何进行的，并讨论了使用这种方法的局限性和经验教训。
