Qualitative Organizational Research: Core Methods and Current Challenges

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This comprehensive text brings together in one volume both consideration of the core methods available for undertaking qualitative data collection and analysis, and discussion of common challenges faced by all researchers in conducting qualitative research.

Qualitative Organizational Research: Core Methods and Common Challenges contains 27 chapters, each written by an expert in the area. The first part of the volume considers common challenges in the design and execution of qualitative research, examining key contemporary debates in each area as well as providing practical advice for those undertaking organizational research. The second part of the volume looks at contemporary uses of core qualitative methods in organizational research, outlining each method and illustrating practical application through empirical examples.

Written by internationally renowned experts in qualitative research methods, this text is an accessible and essential resource for students and researchers in the areas of organization studies, business and management research, and organizational psychology.

Key features:

* Coverage of all the key topics in qualitative research

* Chapters written by experts drawing on their personal experiences of using methods

* Introductory chapters outlining the context for qualitative research and the philosophies which underpin it

Gillian Symo n is Reader in Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London.

Catherine Cassell is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Manchester Business School.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Introduction: the context of qualitative organizational research (p. 1)
• Part I The Issues and Challenges of Qualitative Inquiry in Organizational Research (p. 13)
• 2 Philosophies underpinning qualitative research (p. 15)
• 3 Choosing research participants (p. 35)
• 4 Researching your own organization (p. 53)
• 5 Reflexivity in qualitative research (p. 72)
• 6 Ethical research practice (p. 90)
• 7 Facilitating the interaction between theory and data in qualitative research using CAQDAS
• 8 Combining qualitative methods (p. 132)
• 9 Longitudinal research and analysis (p. 149)
• 10 Doing qualitative business and management research in international and intercultural contexts (p. 168)
• 11 Writing up as a legitimacy seeking process: alternative publishing recipes for qualitative research (p. 185)
• 12 Assessing qualitative research (p. 204)
• 13 Teaching qualitative research in the business school
• Part II Core Methods of Qualitative Inquiry in Organizational Research (p. 237)
• 14 Interviews (p. 239)
• 15 Focus groups (p. 258)
• 16 Participatory visual methods (p. 275)
• 17 Participant observation (p. 296)
• 18 Autoethnography in organizational research: two tales of two cities (p. 314)
• 19 Practising organizational ethnography (p. 331)
• 20 Case studies in organizational research (p. 351)
• 21 Action research (p. 371)
• 22 Using documents in organizational research (p. 389)
• 23 Grounded theory: a theory building approach (p. 408)
• 24 Doing template analysis (p. 426)
• 25 Conversation analysis in management research (p. 451)
• 26 Discourse analysis and discursive research (p. 473)
• 27 Narrative analysis (p. 492)
• Index (p. 512)