Talk delivered at the Online Seminar "Alternative and innovative research methods: untangling research rhetorics and publishing realities", on 29th June 2022, organised by the British Academy of Management (BAM) – Research Methodology (RM) SIG

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3. Epoché describes the mode in which the researcher refrains from explanations,
scientific conceptions and knowledge so as to “return to the unreflective
apprehension of the lived, everyday world”. This is a critical position where nothing
is taken for granted, beliefs, values, or knowledge about the phenomenon are “put
out of play”; the researcher refrains from judgment.
Phenomenological psychological reduction, in turn, only requires the researchers to
suspend their “belief in the existence of what presents itself in the life-world.
Instead the focus is on the subjective appearances and meanings”. So, the
researcher brackets the world but not the empirical subject, to experience the
natural attitude of the person in all its mundanity.
Finally, transcendental phenomenological reduction is “a more radical version of
the epoché where a ‘God’s eye view’ is attempted”; Husserl argued that it allows
the philosopher to be “above his own natural being and above the natural world”.
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4. Lived experience of
Nigerian bank CEOs
I just call them; have
them on speed dial
Professional
knowledge workers
Threshold concepts
in autistic adults
High-performing
autistic professionals
Discovering, during
the project, that she
is autistic too
AI ethics and ethical
bankers
C-level banking
executives
Most of them owe
me some favours…
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