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This chapter provides an overview of interpretive inquiry as an important research approach for management and organizational studies. We review the roots of interpretive inquiry in the philosophical tradition of constructivism and point to the sociological, historical, cognitive, and linguistic foundations thereof. Based on this overview, we point to key research areas that interpretive inquiry particularly influenced and develop epistemological consequences for research practice. The chapter concludes with a discussion of some common criticisms of social constructivism as a philosophical foundation of interpretive inquiry.
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Blagoev, B., Costas, J. (2022). Interpretive Inquiry. In: Neesham, C., Reihlen, M., Schoeneborn, D. (eds) Handbook of Philosophy of Management. Handbooks in Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76606-1_52
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