Thomas Greckhamer
Biographic Data
| ID | 101923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Greckhamer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Greckhamer |
| SIGNATURE | GRECKHAMER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5766-556X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The extension of strategic management discourse into public education administration
Strategy has become ubiquitous in contemporary societies. Accordingly, the expansion of strategy discourse beyond corporate management and its colonization of various aspects of economic and organizational life are important phenomena for critical management research. In this study, we explore how strategy discourse is ushered into and naturalized in the realm of educational administration. Taking a critical approach to discourse analysis, our st…
Capturing Causal Complexity
Management scholars study phenomena marked by complex interdependencies among multiple explanatory factors that combine to bring about an outcome of interest.Yet, theorizing about causal complexity can prove challenging for the correlational theorizing that is predominant in the field of management, given its "net effects thinking" that emphasizes the unique contribution of individual explanatory factors.In contrast, configurational theories and …
Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Education Research
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a set-theoretic configurational approach that uses the logic of Boolean algebra to conceptualize and empirically examine potentially complex causal relations. The potential of this methodological innovation to draw innovative insights toward answering enduring questions and to foster novel research has increasingly been realized in several social science disciplines. However, to date, limited education re…
Studying configurations with qualitative comparative analysis
Qualitative comparative analysis is increasingly applied in strategy and organization research. The main purpose of our essay is to support this growing community of qualitative comparative analysis scholars by identifying best practices that can help guide researchers through the key stages of a qualitative comparative analysis empirical study (model building, sampling, calibration, data analysis, reporting, and interpretation of findings) and b…
CEO compensation in relation to worker compensation across countries
Executive compensation and its relation to that of rank and file employees are vital areas of strategy research. This study contributes to our understanding of cross‐national differences in executive compensation by exploring how key formal and informal country‐level institutions of social power structures combine to shape CEO and worker compensation across countries as well as the resulting pay dispersion. Analyzing data spanning 54 countries us…
Public Value Management
This paper contributes to the study of public value management (PVM). PVM is distinguished from other approaches to public administration in its focus on establishing community networks and collaborative capacity building for the creation of public value. We explore PVM through a case study of a public–community sector partnership strategy called the positive behaviour framework (PBF), a state government initiative designed to transform services …
Rigor, Transparency, Evidence, and Representation in Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis is an important qualitative research approach across social science disciplines for analyzing (and challenging) how reality in a variety of organizational and institutional arenas is constructed. However, the process of conducting empirical discourse analyses remains challenging. In this article, we identify four key challenges involved in doing discourse analysis and recommend several 'tools' derived from empirical practice to…
Chapter 3 The Two QCAs
Although QCA was originally developed specifically for small-N settings, recent studies have shown its potential for large-N organization studies. In this chapter, we provide guidance to prospective researchers with the goal of opening up QCA’s potential for widespread use in organization studies involving large-N settings, both as an alternative and as a complement to conventional regression analyses. We compare small-N and large-N QCA with resp…
Local Meanings of Global Discourses
Advancing methodological approaches to the comparative study of institutional meaning systems is vital for institutional analysis in a globalizing world where cultural resources such as concepts and models of organization circulate across institutional fields. This article illustrates a structural approach to the comparative study of local meanings of global concepts. It demonstrates the use of semantic network analysis (SNA) as a suitable method…
Demystifying Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research
This article seeks to demystify, through deconstruction, the concept of interdisciplinarity in the context of qualitative research to contribute to a new praxis of knowledge production through reflection on the possibilities and impossibilities of interdisciplinarity. A review and discussion of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity leads the authors to formulate and explore the following questions: What is interdisciplinary knowledge? What is it…
The erosion of a method
Since its original inception in the 1960s grounded theory has been widely used by many qualitative researchers. However, recently epistemologically different versions of grounded theory have been presented and this epistemological diversity among grounded theorists and the erosion of the method will be the major focus of this paper. The first section explores the question of what ‘erosion’ of grounded theory means for the practice of qualitative …
Strategic turns labeled 'ethnography
In this article we suggest that strategic turns shape various contemporary uses of ethnography and reflect the exploration of ontological, epistemological, and methodological alternatives. In addition, these strategic turns are aimed to meet the current challenges influenced by changing cultures and their diverse perceptions faced by an increasing number of qualitative researchers. The goal of description that has characterized one end of ethnogr…
Rigor, Transparency, Evidence, and Representation in Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis is an important qualitative research approach across social science disciplines for analyzing (and challenging) how reality in a variety of organizational and institutional arenas is constructed. However, the process of conducting empirical discourse analyses remains challenging. In this article, we identify four key challenges involved in doing discourse analysis and recommend several 'tools' derived from empirical practice to…
The erosion of a method
Since its original inception in the 1960s grounded theory has been widely used by many qualitative researchers. However, recently epistemologically different versions of grounded theory have been presented and this epistemological diversity among grounded theorists and the erosion of the method will be the major focus of this paper. The first section explores the question of what ‘erosion’ of grounded theory means for the practice of qualitative …
Demystifying Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research
This article seeks to demystify, through deconstruction, the concept of interdisciplinarity in the context of qualitative research to contribute to a new praxis of knowledge production through reflection on the possibilities and impossibilities of interdisciplinarity. A review and discussion of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity leads the authors to formulate and explore the following questions: What is interdisciplinary knowledge? What is it…
Strategic turns labeled 'ethnography
In this article we suggest that strategic turns shape various contemporary uses of ethnography and reflect the exploration of ontological, epistemological, and methodological alternatives. In addition, these strategic turns are aimed to meet the current challenges influenced by changing cultures and their diverse perceptions faced by an increasing number of qualitative researchers. The goal of description that has characterized one end of ethnogr…
The erosion of a method
Since its original inception in the 1960s grounded theory has been widely used by many qualitative researchers. However, recently epistemologically different versions of grounded theory have been presented and this epistemological diversity among grounded theorists and the erosion of the method will be the major focus of this paper. The first section explores the question of what ‘erosion’ of grounded theory means for the practice of qualitative …
Strategic turns labeled 'ethnography
In this article we suggest that strategic turns shape various contemporary uses of ethnography and reflect the exploration of ontological, epistemological, and methodological alternatives. In addition, these strategic turns are aimed to meet the current challenges influenced by changing cultures and their diverse perceptions faced by an increasing number of qualitative researchers. The goal of description that has characterized one end of ethnogr…
Demystifying Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research
This article seeks to demystify, through deconstruction, the concept of interdisciplinarity in the context of qualitative research to contribute to a new praxis of knowledge production through reflection on the possibilities and impossibilities of interdisciplinarity. A review and discussion of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity leads the authors to formulate and explore the following questions: What is interdisciplinary knowledge? What is it…
Local Meanings of Global Discourses
Advancing methodological approaches to the comparative study of institutional meaning systems is vital for institutional analysis in a globalizing world where cultural resources such as concepts and models of organization circulate across institutional fields. This article illustrates a structural approach to the comparative study of local meanings of global concepts. It demonstrates the use of semantic network analysis (SNA) as a suitable method…
Chapter 3 The Two QCAs
Although QCA was originally developed specifically for small-N settings, recent studies have shown its potential for large-N organization studies. In this chapter, we provide guidance to prospective researchers with the goal of opening up QCA’s potential for widespread use in organization studies involving large-N settings, both as an alternative and as a complement to conventional regression analyses. We compare small-N and large-N QCA with resp…
Rigor, Transparency, Evidence, and Representation in Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis is an important qualitative research approach across social science disciplines for analyzing (and challenging) how reality in a variety of organizational and institutional arenas is constructed. However, the process of conducting empirical discourse analyses remains challenging. In this article, we identify four key challenges involved in doing discourse analysis and recommend several 'tools' derived from empirical practice to…
CEO compensation in relation to worker compensation across countries
Executive compensation and its relation to that of rank and file employees are vital areas of strategy research. This study contributes to our understanding of cross‐national differences in executive compensation by exploring how key formal and informal country‐level institutions of social power structures combine to shape CEO and worker compensation across countries as well as the resulting pay dispersion. Analyzing data spanning 54 countries us…
Public Value Management
This paper contributes to the study of public value management (PVM). PVM is distinguished from other approaches to public administration in its focus on establishing community networks and collaborative capacity building for the creation of public value. We explore PVM through a case study of a public–community sector partnership strategy called the positive behaviour framework (PBF), a state government initiative designed to transform services …
Studying configurations with qualitative comparative analysis
Qualitative comparative analysis is increasingly applied in strategy and organization research. The main purpose of our essay is to support this growing community of qualitative comparative analysis scholars by identifying best practices that can help guide researchers through the key stages of a qualitative comparative analysis empirical study (model building, sampling, calibration, data analysis, reporting, and interpretation of findings) and b…
Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Education Research
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is a set-theoretic configurational approach that uses the logic of Boolean algebra to conceptualize and empirically examine potentially complex causal relations. The potential of this methodological innovation to draw innovative insights toward answering enduring questions and to foster novel research has increasingly been realized in several social science disciplines. However, to date, limited education re…
Capturing Causal Complexity
Management scholars study phenomena marked by complex interdependencies among multiple explanatory factors that combine to bring about an outcome of interest.Yet, theorizing about causal complexity can prove challenging for the correlational theorizing that is predominant in the field of management, given its "net effects thinking" that emphasizes the unique contribution of individual explanatory factors.In contrast, configurational theories and …
The extension of strategic management discourse into public education administration
Strategy has become ubiquitous in contemporary societies. Accordingly, the expansion of strategy discourse beyond corporate management and its colonization of various aspects of economic and organizational life are important phenomena for critical management research. In this study, we explore how strategy discourse is ushered into and naturalized in the realm of educational administration. Taking a critical approach to discourse analysis, our st…
Computer Science (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Knowledge management (4 works) · Management science (4 works)