One of the problems in construction management research is how to harvest the living experience of people working in the profession. Surveys and interviews are the common methods, but they have obvious problems, not only with defining terminology and targeting the appropriate populations but also with the knowledge of the respondents and their willingness to reflect. Autoethnography, in its conventional form, overcomes most of these problems, but creates a new set of problems, particularly in terms of our ability to generalise and verify the results. What is argued here is that autoethnography can be applied analytically and rigorously so that it can be used for theory testing and theory building. The approach is illustrated by a case study, in which professional experience in the construction industry is integrated into the conventional scientific method.

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民族志和理论测试

建筑管理研究中的问题之一是如何获取专业人士的生活经验。调查和访谈是常见的方法，但是它们不仅存在定义术语和针对适当人群的问题，而且存在被调查者的知识及其反映意愿，因此存在明显的问题。传统的民族志技术克服了大多数这些问题，但产生了一系列新问题，尤其是在我们概括和验证结果的能力方面。这里所说的是，民族志可以被分析和严格地应用，从而可以用于理论测试和理论构建。案例研究说明了该方法，