ABSTRACT
This comprehensive book collects contributions from leading international scholars to highlight the diverse qualitative approaches available to organizational researchers, each grounded in its own philosophy. The editors provide a cutting edge, globally oriented resource on the state of qualitative research methodologies, helping readers to grasp the theories, practices, and future of the field.
Beginning with an overview of qualitative methodologies, the book examines ways in which research employing these techniques is conducted in a variety of disciplines, including entrepreneurship, innovation, strategy, information systems, and organizational behavior. It offers timely updates on how traditions like case studies, ethnographies, historical methods, narrative approaches, and critical research are practiced today and how emerging trends, including increasing legitimacy and feminization, are impacting the domain. The final chapters provide templates for engaging with the future as well as essays that critically assess how qualitative inquiry has evolved within organization studies. Readers will become acquainted with contemporary tools for conducting qualitative studies, learning to appreciate the emerging domains of qualitative inquiry within a dynamic and complex organizational world.
Doctoral students and early-career researchers in organizational studies, especially those engaged with general management, organizational behavior, human resource management, innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategy, will benefit from reading this relevant and inclusive handbook.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|18 pages
Embracing a Constructed Boundary
part 19I|58 pages
Theories
chapter 4|9 pages
Doing Feminist Research Qualitatively
chapter 5|12 pages
Qualitative Management Research in the Shadow of Imperialism
part 77II|124 pages
Traditions
chapter 12|15 pages
Ethnography as Writing
part 201III|124 pages
Contexts
chapter 19|15 pages
Working, Being, and Researching in Place
part 325IV|66 pages
Journeys
chapter 21|16 pages
“Blinded By the Light” or “Seeing the Light”?
chapter 22|15 pages
Appreciating Emergence and Serendipity in Qualitative Research
chapter 25|13 pages
“Standing on [Transparent] Shoulders”
part 391V|87 pages
Frontiers and Reflections