Rumbling on performativity_Frits Simon

Content
Preface 6
1 Introduction: research into performativity from a ‘personal’ perspective 11
1.1 Personal, professional and societal background of my research 12
1.2 <strong>Rumbling</strong> on performativity and research from my advisory position 15
1.3 Insider research and ‘personal’ experiences within Organization and
Management Studies 16
1.4 Radically reflexive: a first introduction to a complex responsive
process-approach 18
1.5 A bird’s eye of my research 21
1.6 A send-off 23
2 Research from a complex responsive process-approach 25
2.1 Basic notions of a complex responsive process-approach 26
2.2 Reflexive research(er) and a complex responsive process-approach 36
2.3 Framing relevance, external and internal validity of research from an
auto-ethnographic and a complex responsive process perspective 44
2.4 Research standards for a complex responsive process-approach 49
2.5 Ethical responsibilities regarding my research 53
2.6 Sound research from the perspective of a complex responsive
process-approach 59
2.7 What to expect? Conclusions and perspective 61
3 My taken for granted assumptions as a researcher 65
3.1 My paradigm in a nutshell: about default assumptions 66
3.2 Defaults-genesis part I: growing up to be an adult 68
3.3 Defaults-genesis part II: a young lecturer on the move 70
3.4 Defaults-genesis part III: becoming and being a manager 72
3.5 Defaults-genesis part IV: director strategic programme 76
3.6 A wavering UAS: a context for my research 79
3.7 Exploring the kinship between a complex responsive process-approach
and the concept of the wisdom of the crowd 82
3.8 Reflections in hindsight 84
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