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Narrative Inquiry and Public Administration Research: Methodological Issues and Application

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2011, 22(3), pp.123-151
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

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ABSTRACT

As an interpretive and qualitative research method, narrative inquiry reconstructs events in public administration from a certain point of view and enables researchers to interpret implicit meanings and stories underlying narratives rather than events themselves, and to overcome limitations of the positivist approach to research. That is, through an interpretive approach, narrative inquiry has contributed to the building of a representative process of multidimensional phenomena in public administration for deeper understanding and interpretation. This research employs narrative inquiry to study motivation factors of local government employees. To continue to enhance our understanding of narrative inquiry as a phenomenological and qualitative research method, it is necessary for researchers to intensify efforts to link narrative inquiry and public administration research.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.