Heldal Frode, Dehlin Erlend, Oddane Torild Alise
Faculty of Economics, Trondheim Business School, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Front Psychol. 2021 Jan 13;11:607919. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.607919. eCollection 2020.
In this article, we sketch up an action research process designed to give voice to those who traditionally have not had a voice in organizations. In particular, the research process was structured around "serious play" and designed as a talk show, where researchers played parts, including a talk show host, and where questions pertaining to organizational life were discussed in depth. The structure of the discussion was construed based on reflective teams, i.e., two actors performing a dialogue (talk show host and guest) and a silent group (audience) as listeners. The key research question concerns in what ways such an action research process is replicable? Applying a critical lens, we argue that even if strong claims of replicability are not met, as in being able to reproduce results and/or generalize them, this is outside the point. Rather, as we set out to apply a qualitative research design to achieve cogenerative learning effects, we advance an understanding of replicability-as-recoverability. This entails giving explicit grounds for our epistemic anchoring in critical realism and sketching out a research design which is sufficiently clear and transparent to undergo critical scrutiny.
在本文中，我们勾勒了一个行动研究过程，旨在让那些在组织中传统上没有发言权的人发出声音。具体而言，该研究过程围绕“严肃游戏”构建，并设计成一档脱口秀节目，研究人员在其中扮演角色，包括脱口秀主持人，在节目中深入讨论与组织生活相关的问题。讨论的结构基于反思团队构建，即由两名演员进行对话（脱口秀主持人和嘉宾）以及一个沉默的群体（观众）作为听众。关键的研究问题是，这样的行动研究过程在哪些方面是可复制的？运用批判性视角，我们认为，即使无法满足关于可复制性的有力主张，比如无法重现结果和/或进行结果推广，但这并非重点所在。相反，当我们着手应用定性研究设计以实现共同生成学习效果时，我们提出了对可复制性即可恢复性的理解。这需要为我们在批判实在论中的认知锚定给出明确依据，并勾勒出一个足够清晰和透明以便接受严格审查的研究设计。
