Abstract

GONZALEZ-VEJA, Alba María del Carmen; RAMOS-LUNA, Lorena Litai  and  LOPEZ, Aydé Cadena. Life Stories: Fundamentals and Scope in Organizational Analysis. NTQR [online]. 2024, vol.19, e873.  Epub Feb 15, 2024. ISSN 2184-7770.  https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.19.2023.e873.

Introduction. The critical organizational study focuses on the recognition, analysis and understanding of the diversity of local realities that give life to organizations. The complexity of this comprehensive approach makes it necessary to integrate qualitative methodologies that allow a genuine approach to primary information sources. Life history, as a research method, allows the recognition of the subjective experiences of key actors and the researcher himself; through which you can access memories, conceptions, ideologies, among other elements that account for unique knowledge that could hardly be accessed through positivist methods. Goals. In this sense, the objective of the work is to reflect on the foundations of life history as a qualitative research method and its scope for critical organizational analysis. Methods. An analysis of theoretical documents was performed to recover the main characteristics of organizational analysis and the scope of life history as a research method. This is complemented by a PhD thesis review in Organizational Studies, which use life history in their methodology. Results. The results show that life history, as a research method, presents various benefits that contribute to organizational analysis. However, despite this, it has been used more as a tool for collecting information than as a research method. Conclusions. Given this, it is concluded that it is necessary to delve into the discussion of the benefits that life history offers as a method of research, especially for the generation of organizational knowledge from a critical approach.

Keywords : Social sciences; Methodology as a topic; Qualitative analysis; Empirical research; Organizations..

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