The use of the repertory grid for collaboration and reflection in a research context

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Alexander, Patricia Margaret
Van Loggerenberg, J.J. (Johannes Josephus)
Lotriet, H.H. (Hugo H.)
Phahlamohlaka, Jackie

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Springer

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The Repertory Grid (RepGrid) technique has been used extensively in Management Sciences research, including Information Systems research, in order to reveal the personal views of individual research subjects regarding the issue being studied. These individual constructs are then used to propose criteria for success amongst other things. This paper uses a distinctly different form of RepGrid, renamed a ReflectionGrid, as a collaboration tool. Members of a research team use this new technique to probe their individual understanding of what happened and what was achieved during a research event and then to share these insights. Hence, not only is the application new (reflection and construction of shared meaning rather than the analysis and synthesis of personal constructs) but the original grid technique has evolved.

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Information systems research methodology, Collaboration and reflection

Sustainable Development Goals

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Alexander, P, Van Loggerenberg, J, Lotriet, H & Phahlamohlaka, J 2009, 'The use of the repertory grid for collaboration and reflection in a research context', Group Decision and Negotiation, pp. 1-26. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/100270/?p=a8af49c8049943e0b7b813841f4df445&pi=1]