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Crook, D (1997) Empirical enquiry or metaphysics? Re-specifying the methodological debate. Journal of Construction Procurement, 3(02), 56–71.

Holt, G D (1997) Construction research questionnaires and attitude measurement: relative index or mean?. Journal of Construction Procurement, 3(02), 88–96.

Lenard, D, Raftery, J and McGeorge, D (1997) Designing a research methodology. Journal of Construction Procurement, 3(02), 19–33.

McCabe, S (1997) Using suitable tools for researching what quality managers in construction organizations actually do. Journal of Construction Procurement, 3(02), 72–87.

Rooke, J D (1997) Developing a more empirical approach to culture, attitude and motivation in construction management research: a critique and a proposal. Journal of Construction Procurement, 3(02), 45–55.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: culture; ethnomethodology; motivation; research method; paradigm
  • ISBN/ISSN: 1358-9180
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  • Abstract:
    The problem of achieving adequate empirical accounts of culture, motivation and attitudes in construction management research is addressed. The usual association of adequacy with objectivity, causality and quantification is criticized and it is suggested that the concept of Verstehen provides an alternative guide to study. Within this conception, explanations are not primarily causal in form, but concerned with the investigation and explication of meaning. Criteria developed within the discipline of ethnomethodology (EM) and founded in the logic of Verstehen are offered as alternative standards of rigorous analysis. These consist in a requirement to remain faithful to the empirical phenomenon under study and to eschew speculation and ad hoc abstraction.

Root, D, Fellows, R F and Hancock, M (1997) Quantitative versus qualitative or positivism and interactionism: a reflection of ideology in the current methodological debate?. Journal of Construction Procurement, 3(02), 34–44.

Runeson, G (1997) The methodology of building economics research. Journal of Construction Procurement, 3(02), 3–18.