This article suggests including drawing, a participative visual method, when designing organizational change research. It is based on a comparative analysis of three research protocols that have integrated drawing as a data collection method. Examining how drawing has been used in these studies leads to the identification of four elicitation processes—contextualizing, exemplifying, focusing, and reflecting—by which drawing gives access to data that would be more challenging to collect with conventional research methods alone. The article shows that these processes bring the participants’ emotions, lived experiences, and cultural influences to light in ways that may considerably enrich organizational change research. It ends by providing a set of guidelines on how to employ drawing in triangulation with other data collection methods.

本文建议在设计组织变更研究时包括绘图，一种参与式视觉方法。它基于对三种研究方案的比较分析，这些方案已将绘图集成为数据收集方法。检查这些研究中如何使用绘图会导致确定四个启发过程-语境化，例示性，聚焦性和反思性-通过这些过程，绘图提供了访问数据的机会，而仅使用常规研究方法就很难收集这些数据。文章表明，这些过程可以显着丰富组织变革研究的方式使参与者的情感，生活经验和文化影响得以曝光。最后，提供了一组有关如何将三角剖分中的绘图与其他数据收集方法一起使用的准则。