Grounded Theory Evolution, Failures Abolition and Optimization

Gaining cognition and awareness from the world is one of the procedures of acquiring knowledge from the essentialism viewpoints applying qualitative research. There are considerable numbers of specific do’s and don’ts (regulations) applying qualitative research paradigm to secure appropriate knowledge, awareness and values of cognition. Conducting qualitative research under the stipulation of detection and application of appropriate research method, including grounded theory (GT), with highly valuable findings can provide stable basis for the quantitative research paradigm faze. Ontology, epistemology, methodology and method’s insufficiency or misapplication create invalid and unjustifiable research findings. Insufficiency and inappropriate use of GT as one of the ontological methods grounded this article to acquaint researchers with appropriate application of this method in their research. Inspecting considerable numbers of article in which GT was applied as per literature of this method, along with investigating GT method failures in these article motivated the author to investigate related literature through evolutionary approach and critical hermeneutic analysis detect 10 failures in this theory that none of them has been mentioned in GT literature so far. As the result these 10 issues are: precise identification of experts and subject matter specialists, experts and specialists footing, fitness of the research method and data collection tools, applying experts’ conformity measurement, harmony of coding procedure and GT type, accurate data processing procedure, approaching the usefulness threshold, developing theoretical model, achieving findings generalizability, and finally, producing and/or exploring reliable theory. Editorial appraisal approach of the articles developed applying GT showed that almost all of the coding procedures fit the evolutionary version as; open, axial and selective while all of the authors of the articles index Glaser and Strauss who developed traditional version of GT for coding. Therefore it seems that there is not sufficient awareness of GT application and coding exigencies. Hence, while traditional GT version is referred, coding procedure is not up to date. Therefore, the outcome theories won’t be as reliable as should be where as unfortunately, these articles are being published regardless of their shortcomings.