Abduction as the type of inference that characterizes the development of a grounded theory

Qualitative Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 497-513

  Richardson, Rudy ^a,b   Kramer, Hans Eric ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS DEFENCE ACADEMY   (Netherlands)

^b Faculty of Military Science   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abduction; Grounded theory; Military organizations; Organizational design; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750223284     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794106068019     Document Type: Article

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