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Social enterprises in the EU (IVOR nr. 111) 2018/1.4.1.4
1.4.1.4 Meta-synthesis
mr. A. Argyrou, datum 01-02-2018
- Datum
01-02-2018
- Auteur
mr. A. Argyrou
- JCDI
JCDI:ADS592826:1
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Ondernemingsrecht / Rechtspersonenrecht
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C.H. Major and M. Savin-Baden, An Introduction to Qualitative Research Synthesis: Managing the Information Explosion in Social Science Research (Routledge 2010) 10.
Major and Savin-Baden (n 67) 10; L. Timulak, ‘Qualitative Meta-analysis’ in U. Flick (ed), The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis (Sage 2013); B.L. Paterson et al., Meta-study of Qualitative Health Research: A Practical Guide to Meta-analysis and Meta- synthesis (Sage 2001). C. Hoon, ‘Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Case Studies: An Approach to Theory Building’ [2013] 16(4) Organizational Research Methods, 522-556.
Major and Savin-Baden (n 67).
Hoon (n 68) 528-543.
H.S. Becker, Sociological Work: Method and Substance (Aldine Pub. Co. 1970) 81;M. Williams and W.P. Vogt, The SAGE Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods (Sage 2011) 376. J.A. Maxwell, ‘Designing a Qualitative Study’ in L. Bickman and D.J. Rog (eds), The Sage Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods (2nd edn, Sage 2009) 245. J.A. Maxwell, Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach, Applied Social Research Methods Series (Sage 1996) 95.
H.S. Becker, ‘Problems of Inference and Proof in Participant Observation’ (1958) 23(6) American Sociological Review, 656; Becker (n 71) 31 and 81; N.K. Denzin and Y.S. Lincoln, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research (Sage 2005) 16-17.
Maxwell 2009 (n 71) 245.
In Sub-section 3.6 of Chapter 3, a meta-synthesis and a cross-case analysis of findings and elements of discussion relating to the qualitative case studies is provided in response to the research question. A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies is used to aggregately analyse and interpret the results from the qualitative case studies.1 As such, the meta-synthesis constitutes an in-depth analysis and evaluation of the results derived from the nine qualitative case studies in response to the research question.2
Scholarship has developed certain methodological steps and techniques to be used in a meta-synthesis.3 The steps include: (i) a cross-case comparison and analysis on a case-specific level; (ii) a synthesis of findings on a cross- case study level; (iii) theory building from the meta-synthesis; and (iv) a discussion, which explains the analyses and discusses the findings.4 These methodological steps and techniques, which were applied for the cross-case analysis and meta-synthesis, are explained in detail in Sub-section 3.6.2 of Chapter 3.
Additionally, Chapter 3 also supports its results by the use of what is called ‘a quasi-statistic technique’ in the meta-synthesis in Sub-section 3.6.4 of Chapter 3. These descriptive quasi-statistics can be retrieved from the qualitative data.5 Becker, the leading proponent of the use of quasi-statistics in qualitative research, explains that various data collected in qualitative research are ‘capable of being transformed into legitimate statistical data’ but they have a form, which cannot ‘meet the assumptions of statistical tests, so that the observer deals with what has been called ‘quasi-statistics’.6 The use of quasi-statistics supports the visualisation and assessment of several patterns and leads to basic numerical demonstrations of the results, derived from the qualitative data.7