Ethnostatistics and Organizational Research Methodologies  

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Gephart, Robert P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Organizational Research Methods vol. 9 no. 4 (Oct. 2006), page 417-431.
Topik: SOCIAL; social construction of numbers; interpretive perspectives; rhetoric of statisitcs; enumerology; statistical validity
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Ethnostatistics is the empirical stduy of how professional scholars cosntruct and use statistics and numeral in scholarly research. This article provides an overview of the objectives, contents, and contributions of the current theme issue. The nature and relevance of ethnostatistics to organizational issues are discussed. Three levels of ethnostatistics aer identified and explained constructing statistics, statistics at work and the rhetoric of statistics. The contribution the theme issues provides to these three levels of ethnostatistics are discussed. Foundational perspectives that have shaped ethnostatistics are explored to highlight important assumptions of the field and to distinguish ethnostatistics from related fields. The theme issue broadens the field of ethnostatistics to address statistical practices used by business professionals for organizational purposes. The article concludes by arguing that the field od ethnostatistics needs to develop rapidly at this point in time to address the emerging centrality and importance that statistics hold for everyday organizational life.

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