Design and quality criteria for archetype analysis
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F19%3A00111515" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/19:00111515 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art6/" target="_blank" >https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art6/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-10855-240306" target="_blank" >10.5751/ES-10855-240306</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Design and quality criteria for archetype analysis
Original language description
A key challenge in addressing the global degradation of natural resources and the environment is to effectively transfer successful strategies across heterogeneous contexts. Archetype analysis is a particularly salient approach in this regard that helps researchers to understand and compare patterns of (un)sustainability in heterogeneous cases. Archetype analysis avoids traps of overgeneralization and ideography by identifying reappearing but nonuniversal patterns that hold for well-defined subsets of cases. It can be applied by researchers working in inter- or transdisciplinary settings to study sustainability issues from a broad range of theoretical and methodological standpoints. However, there is still an urgent need for quality standards to guide the design of theoretically rigorous and practically useful archetype analyses. To this end, we propose four quality criteria and corresponding research strategies to address them: (1) specify the domain of validity for each archetype, (2) ensure that archetypes can be combined to characterize single cases, (3) explicitly navigate levels of abstraction, and (4) obtain a fit between attribute configurations, theories, and empirical domains of validity. These criteria are based on a stocktaking of current methodological challenges in archetypes research, including: to demonstrate the validity of the analysis, delineate boundaries of archetypes, and select appropriate attributes to define them. We thus contribute to a better common understanding of the approach and to the improvement of the research design of future archetype analyses.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology and Society
ISSN
1708-3087
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
24
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CA - CANADA
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
1-12
UT code for WoS article
000490942000002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85070837716