Generating Research Questions Through Problematization ( Alvesson & Sandberg 2011) - Weekend Classics

English Podcast starts at 00:00:12Bengali Podcast starts at 00:21:58🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit! 🎙️The podcast where academic heavyweights meet curious minds, and where every great paper gets a second read. 📚✨Today, we're diving into an article that doesn’t just ask better questions—it teaches you how to question the questions. 🧠💥We’re talking about the brilliant and provocative paper titled:“Generating Research Questions Through Problematization”✍️ Written by Mats Alvesson and Jörgen Sandberg📅 Published in April 2011📘 In the prestigious, FT50-listed journal: Academy of Management Review🏛️ Brought to you by the Academy of Management👓 You’ve heard of gap-spotting—find a hole, fill it, get published. But what if that’s the academic equivalent of fixing cracks in a house that’s already sinking?Alvesson and Sandberg flip the script. They don’t want you to look for gaps. They want you to dig under the foundation and ask: What if the whole thing’s built on questionable assumptions? 🏗️💭This paper introduces problematization—a radical methodology that doesn’t just challenge ideas; it challenges the way we come up with ideas. 🤯Forget safe research questions. This is about shaking up paradigms, root metaphors, ideologies, and yes—even your field’s deepest beliefs. 🌪️📖So, here’s the question we’ll leave you with today:If the most interesting research comes from questioning assumptions… what assumptions are you still afraid to question? 🤔💬🫶 A huge thanks to Mats Alvesson, Jörgen Sandberg, and the Academy of Management for this mind-bending contribution to scholarly thinking.💥 Don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast, Revise and Resubmit, on Spotify, and check out our YouTube channel Weekend Researcher for more bite-sized brilliance.🎧 We’re also available on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast—so no matter where you like to listen, we’ve got you covered!Until next time, keep questioning, keep revising, and don’t forget—sometimes, the best answers come from better questions. 💡📎ReferenceMats Alvesson and Jörgen Sandberg(2011): Generating Research Questions Through Problematization. AMR, 36, 247–271, https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2009.0188Related work with dataSandberg, J., & Alvesson, M. (2010). Ways of constructing research questions: gap-spotting or problematization? Organization, 18(1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508410372151Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Support us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher