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Do I need to have an ontological and epistemological position for my study?

H

Do I need to have an ontological and epistemological position for my qualitative interview based study?

And secondly, does anyone have a concise easily written document that can help explain all the difference stances? It is so mind boggling!

S

Yes. The fact you are doing an interview based study already implies you have an epistemological stance.
Ontology: what exists in the world?
Epistemology: How do you know it exists?

P

Yes you do - I can recommend Mark Easterby-Smith, R Thorpe and P Jackson, Management Research, Sage 2012. It's good even for non-management research (like me).

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