Giovan Francesco Lanzara
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034456
- eISBN:
- 9780262332309
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034456.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
The different sections of Part I deal with theoretical and methodological issues related to how to do reflective research on innovation in real life practice settings. It sets up the frame to ...
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The different sections of Part I deal with theoretical and methodological issues related to how to do reflective research on innovation in real life practice settings. It sets up the frame to appreciate the field studies in Parts II and III. First, the ambiguous features of the practice setting in which innovation happens are discussed: the dynamic tension between stability and change, discontinuities, shifting and drifting phenomena, the gap between practice and method, the routine/background relationship, and the ambivalent role of the observer. The exposition relies on two illustrative metaphors: real-life practice as a swamp, and routine as a path in the wood. Then the main features of the design of a reflective inquiry are discussed, like first-order and second-order inquiry, backtalk and conversations, unremarkability. Finally, the idea of a theoretical narrative is articulated as a strategy to structure and interpret the findings of the field studies.Less
The different sections of Part I deal with theoretical and methodological issues related to how to do reflective research on innovation in real life practice settings. It sets up the frame to appreciate the field studies in Parts II and III. First, the ambiguous features of the practice setting in which innovation happens are discussed: the dynamic tension between stability and change, discontinuities, shifting and drifting phenomena, the gap between practice and method, the routine/background relationship, and the ambivalent role of the observer. The exposition relies on two illustrative metaphors: real-life practice as a swamp, and routine as a path in the wood. Then the main features of the design of a reflective inquiry are discussed, like first-order and second-order inquiry, backtalk and conversations, unremarkability. Finally, the idea of a theoretical narrative is articulated as a strategy to structure and interpret the findings of the field studies.
Giovan Francesco Lanzara
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034456
- eISBN:
- 9780262332309
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034456.003.0006
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
The chapter gives a reasoned account of the researcher's shifting interpretations of the design and testing process consequent to further incoming events and to the Music Faculty' s backtalk.The ...
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The chapter gives a reasoned account of the researcher's shifting interpretations of the design and testing process consequent to further incoming events and to the Music Faculty' s backtalk.The backtalk changed the researcher's early story of the demo as a controversy about the educational value of the system. The author revisits his early interpretation and tells different stories leading to new understandings. In the process, the researcher's inquiry takes a reflective turn: as he helps the project participants to reflect on their practice, he discovers he is also reflecting on his own. In a sequence of backtalk iterations and revisitations of his previous stories, the researcher becomes aware of his underlying assumptions and earlier understandings and draws a revised picture of the entire process. Therefore he comes to tell a story of shifting stories in which his central research predicament becomes accounting for the practitioners' and his own multiple and shifting understandings of the design process.Less
The chapter gives a reasoned account of the researcher's shifting interpretations of the design and testing process consequent to further incoming events and to the Music Faculty' s backtalk.The backtalk changed the researcher's early story of the demo as a controversy about the educational value of the system. The author revisits his early interpretation and tells different stories leading to new understandings. In the process, the researcher's inquiry takes a reflective turn: as he helps the project participants to reflect on their practice, he discovers he is also reflecting on his own. In a sequence of backtalk iterations and revisitations of his previous stories, the researcher becomes aware of his underlying assumptions and earlier understandings and draws a revised picture of the entire process. Therefore he comes to tell a story of shifting stories in which his central research predicament becomes accounting for the practitioners' and his own multiple and shifting understandings of the design process.
