Resonant experience in emergent events of analysis

Theory, and the traditions of thought available and known to us,give shape to what we are able to notice of our field of inquiry,and so also of our practice of research. Building on G. H. Mead’sPhilosophy of the Present (1932), this paper draws attention to‘emergent events’ of analysis when working abductively withinterview data in a process of re-experiencing interview materialthrough listening to audio recordings of qualitative researchinterviews. The paper presents an emergent event of analysis inwhich the theoretical argument of (the researcher’s) Self as aprocess of becoming in responsive relating to (case study) othersis made generative as a dynamic in and of case study analysis.Using a case of being a newcomer (to research communities)researching newcomer innovation (of others), ‘resonantexperience’ is illustrated as a heuristic in interview analysis tosimultaneously deconstruct/reconstruct dichotomous conceptcategories known to organize the research literature in a field

Modtagelsessamspillets lokale økologi: Identitet og mening til forhandling

Based on an empirical study of organizational entry and employee induction in a Danish private sector company, and supported by complexity theory perspectives, the article develops the notion of ‘organizational temporality’ of relevance when researching and practicing employee induction. Organizational life is understood as evolving complex responsive processes of local interaction forming and being formed by global patterns of interaction (Stacey 2010, Prigogine 1997). It is argued that formalized induction practices based on assumptions of newcomer as ‘unknowledgeable’ and oldtimer as ‘knowledgeable’ is in possible discord with actual learning processes and related feelings of uncertainty experienced by newcomers and oldtimers in rapidly changing organizations. To reduce costly newcomer turnover many organizations put much energy into optimizing formalized global induction programs. This article contends that organizational entry, socialization and newcomer–oldtimer interactions are best understood in a local micro-organizational perspective. Based on this contention the term ‘ecology of entry’ is developed.&nbsp