Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bath, and also affiliated with Lund University, Stockholm School of Economics and Bayes Business School, City, University of London. Joergen Sandberg is Professor in the University of Queensland (UQ) Business School and Honorary Professor at Warwick Business School.
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1 Research questions: a core ingredient in developing interesting theories 2 The context of constructing and formulating research questions 3 Gap-spotting: the prevalent way of constructing research questions in social science 4 A critical evaluation of gap-spotting research: does it lead to interesting theories? 5 Problematization as a methodology for generating research questions 6 Applying the problematization methodology 7 Why does gap-spotting dominate when it reduces the chance to create interesting theories? 8 Constructing interesting research questions: problematization and beyond