Discovering new theories

This book proposes an original research

approach, a mixed typological research

design, which is in the legacy of classic

Grounded Theory. This approach allows

researchers to accomplish productive

academic empirical research by developing

and elaborating groundbreaking new

theories. Such an approach implies the

utilization of mixed qualitative and

quantitative data, in order to allow

researchers to develop theories of greater

scope and reach.

The approach proposed in this book may

be profitably applied by both novice and

experienced researchers in management

and all social sciences as well as in any

science that uses empirical data, whose

sources are human beings, for instance

medicine or nursing.