Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research: Innovative Pathways and Methods

✍ Scribed by Kimberly D. Elsbach, Roderick M. Kramer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 521
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art, innovative approaches to qualitative research for organizational scholars. Individual chapters in each area are written by experts in a variety of fields, who have contributed some of the most innovative studies themselves in recent years. An indispensable reference guide to anyone conducting high-impact organizational research, this handbook includes innovative approaches to research problems, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, and application of research findings. The book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students in a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, organizational behavior, organizational theory, social psychology, and sociology

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Praise for this book
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Figures
Tables
About the Editors
About the Contributors
PART I - Introduction, History, and Context of Qualitative Methods
1. Introduction: In Search of Innovative Pathways and Methods in Qualitative Research
2. Qualitative Research: It Just Keeps Getting More Interesting!
3. Ups and Downs: Trends in the Development and Reception of Qualitative Methods
PART II - Innovative Research Settings
4. Using Extreme Cases to Understand Organizations
5. Contract Ethnography in Corporate Settings: Innovation From Entanglement
6. Studying Elites in Institutions of Higher Education
7. Drawing Fine Lines Behind Bars: Pushing the Boundaries of Researcher Neutrality in Unconventional Contexts
8. Why Is That Interesting? Finding the Meanings of Unexplored Phenomena
9. Studying Organizational Fields Through Ethnography
PART III - Innovative Research Designs
10. How to Look Two Ways at Once: Research Strategies for Inhabited Institutionalism
11. Using Qualitative Methods to Track Evolving Entrepreneurial Identities
12. From What Happened to What Happens: Using Microhistorical Case Studies to Build Grounded Theory in Organization Studies
13. Immersion Ethnography of Elites
14. Accounting for Accounts: Crafting Ethnographic Validity Through Team Ethnography
15. Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Opportunities for Case-Based Research
16. Leveraging Comparative Field Data for Theory Generation
17. Crafting and Selecting Research Questions and Contexts in Qualitative Research
18. A Practice Approach to the Study of Social Networks
PART IV - Unique Forms of Qualitative Data
19. Denials, Obstructions, and Silences: Lessons from Repertoires of Field Resistance (and Embrace)
20. The Aesthetics of Data: Qualitative Analysis of Visual and Other Nontextual Forms of Data
21. Leveraging Archival Data from Online Communities for Grounded Process Theorizing
22. Analyzing Visual Rhetoric in Organizational Research
23. Markers, Metaphors, and Meaning: Drawings as a Visual and Creative Qualitative Research Methodology in Organizations
PART V - Unique Data Collection Methods
24. Structural Sampling: A Technique for Illuminating Social Systems
25. Ethnography Across the Work Boundary: Benefits and Considerations for Organizational Studies
26. Strategic Conversations: Methods for Data Collection and Analysis
27. Triangulate and Expand: Using Multiple Sources of Data for Convergence and Expansion to Enrich Inductive Theorizing
28. “What’s Cooking?” Serendipitous Opportunities and Creative Action in Data Collection
PART VI - Innovative Forms of Analysis
29. Adventures in Qualitative Research
30. Concept Mapping as a Methodical and Transparent Data Analysis Process
31. Innovation Through Collaboration: Working Together on Data Analysis and Interpretation
32. Multilevel Discourse Analysis: A Structured Approach to Analyzing Longitudinal Data
33. Tabula Geminus: A “Both/And” Approach to Coding and Theorizing
34. Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as a Descriptive Numerical Method in Support of Narrative Methods
35. Discovery, Validation, and Live Coding
36. Between Text and Context: Innovative Approaches to the Qualitative Analysis of Online Data
37. Documenting Work: From Participant Observation to Participant Tracing
38. The Journey From Data to Qualitative Inductive Paper: Who Helps and How?
39. Worth a Second Look? Exploring the Power of Post-Mortems on Post-Mortems
PART VII - Multimethods Approaches
40. Mixing Quantitative and Qualitative Research
41. Counting Qualitative Data
42. Combining Qualitative Methods to Study Collective Cognition in Organizations
43. Highlights of the Hybrid Method
PART VIII - Challenges and Opportunities in Qualitative Methods
44. Confessions of a Mad Ethnographer
Index