地理学中组织研究的方法论框架

Methodological Frameworks for the Geography of Organizations

在这篇文章中,我们介绍了在地理学中进行组织研究的三种方法论框架,它们根植于人类地理学的三种元理论学视角:空间科学、批判现实主义和后结构主义。每个框架在提供一种不同的对组织进行研究的理论化视角的同时,也激发了不同的研究问题,这些研究问题能够被用于指导相应的地理学研完。文章提出的研究问题是一般性的,并与所有类型的组织相关。最后作为对本文方法论探讨的补充,作者说明了每个框架可能怎样影响了对肯塔基州怀茨堡的一家传媒艺术组织——阿帕影像工作室——的经验研究。

In this paper, we present three methodological frameworks for the geographic study of organizations. These are situated within three metatheoretical perspectives in human geography： spatial science, critical realism, and post-structuralism. Each framework offers a different theorization of organizations, and each prompts different research questions that can be used to guide their geographic study. The research questions we offer are general, and are pertinent to all types of organizations. To supplement the methodological contributions of this paper, we suggest how each of these frameworks might inform empirical investigations of Appalshop, a media arts organization located in Whitesburg, Kentucky.