Qualitative Organizational Research: Core Methods and Current Challenges

Written by Gillian Symon and Catherine Casse internationally renowned experts in qualitative research methods, this comprehensive text brings together in one volume the range of methods available for undertaking qualitative data collection and analysis. Qualitative Organizational Research contains 27 chapters, each focusing on a specific technique. The first part of the volume looks at contemporary uses of qualitative methods in organizational research, outlining each method and illustrating practical application through case studies. The second part of the volume goes on to consider the broader issues in qualitative methods, examining key contemporary debates in each area as well as providing practical advice for those undertaking organizational research.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Context of Qualitative Organizational Research

Part I The Issues And Challenges Of Qualitative Inquiry In Organizational Research
Chapter 2 Philosophies underpinning qualitative research
Chapter 3 Choosing research participants
Chapter 4 Researching your own organization
Chapter 5 Reflexivity in qualitative research
Chapter 6 Ethical research practice
Chapter 7 Facilitating the Interaction Between Theory and Data in Qualitative Research Using CAQDAS
Chapter 8 Combining qualitative methods
Chapter 9 Longitudinal research and analysis
Chapter 10 Doing qualitative business and management research in
Chapter 11 Writing up as a legitimacy seeking process: alternativepublishing recipes for qualitative research
Chapter 12 Assessing qualitative research
Chapter 13 Teaching qualitative research in the business school

Part II Core Methods Of Qualitative Inquiry In Organizational Research
Chapter 14 Interviews
Chapter 15 Focus groups
Chapter 16 Participatory visual methods
Chapter 17 Participant observation
Chapter 18 Autoethnography in Organizational Research: Two Tales of Two Cities
Chapter 19 Practising organizational ethnography
Chapter 20 Case studies in organizational research
Chapter 21 Action research
Chapter 22 Using documents in organizational research
Chapter 23 Grounded theory: a theory building approach
Chapter 24 Doing template analysis
Chapter 25 Conversation analysis in management research
Chapter 26 Discourse analysis and discursive research
Chapter 27 Narrative analysis