... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Qualitative research Serendipity Abduction Sensemaking process Serendipitous Research in the social sciences is built on certain beliefs, values, and assumptions, one of which is empirical rationality – the regularity of empirical...

... of conflict or dissonance concerning information use. Abductive reasoning facilitates application of SMM to historically produced documents. Originality/value The novelty of this paper lies in the analysis of information, truth and meaning according to a realist, emergentist ontology...