1What Would John Dewey Say About the Fallacies of Grounded Theory?
There is no ‘ground’ and no ‘theory’ in Grounded Theory (GT)! Most every dissertation or qualitative study article I review claims to do GT, but does not notice that GT has changed radically over the years. Now I ask, what GT wave are you doing? GT has come under widespread criticism in every top-tier journal of management and organization research. Each of the first three GT waves has an epistemic fallacy. Here, I would like to show how John Dewey’s pragmatism philosophy offers a way forward to GT. I will briefly review how GT has developed in three waves (or paradigm shifts) and propose a 4th wave that is ontological, rather than merely epistemological as is 1st wave GT, or ...
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