by Cathy Cassell (Editor), Ann L Cunliffe (Editor), Gina Grandy (Editor)
About this book
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods provides a state-of–the-art overview of qualitative research methods in the business and management field.
The Handbook celebrates the diversity of the field by drawing from a wide range of traditions and by bringing together a number of leading international researchers engaged in studying a variety of topics through multiple qualitative methods. The chapters address the philosophical underpinnings of particular approaches to research, contemporary illustrations, references, and practical guidelines for their use. The book therefore provides a useful resource for Ph.D. students and early career researchers interested in developing and expanding their knowledge and practice of qualitative research. In covering established and emerging methods, it also provides an invaluable source of information for faculty teaching qualitative research methods. The chapters in this volume have been arranged into four thematic parts:
- Part One: Influential Traditions: underpinning qualitative research: positivism, interpretivism, pragmatism, constructionism, critical, poststructuralism, hermeneutics, postcolonialism, critical realism, mixed methods, grounded theory, feminist and indigenous approaches.
- Part Two: Research Designs: ethnography, field research, action research, case studies, process and practice methodologies.
- Part Three: The Researcher: positionality, reflexivity, ethics, gender and intersectionality, writing from the body, and achieving critical distance.
- Part Four: Challenges: research design, access and departure, choosing participants, research across boundaries, writing for different audiences, ethics in international research, digital ethics, and publishing qualitative research.
Table of contents
1 Introduction: Qualitative Research in Business and Management 1
PART I INFLUENTIAL TRADITIONS 15
2 Positivist Qualitative Methods 17
3 Qualitative Research as Interpretive Social Science 33
4 Pragmatism: A Philosophy of Practice 54
5 Critical Management Studies 69
6 Poststructuralism 86
7 Mixed Methods 102
8 Resisting Colonization in Business and Management Studies: From Postcolonialism to Decolonization 119
9 Feminist Methodologies 138
10 Indigenous Qualitative Research 154
11 An Introduction to Constructionism for Qualitative Researchers in Business and Management 173
12 Hermeneutics: Interpretation, Understanding and Sense-making 185
13 Critical Realism and Qualitative Research: An Introductory Overview 201
14 Ethnomethodology 217
15 From Grounded Theory to Grounded Theorizing in QualitativeResearch 233
PART II RESEARCH DESIGNS 251
16 Researching Bodies: Embodied Fieldwork for Knowledge Work, Which Turns Out to Be Embodied 253
17 Organizational Ethnographies 270
18 Action Research: Knowing and Changing (in) Organizational Contexts 286
19 Researching Organizational Concepts Processually: The Case of Identity 308
20 Designing Strategy as Practice Research 328
21 The Case Study in Management Research: Beyond the Positivist Legacy of Eisenhardt and Yin? 345
PART III THE RESEARCHER 359
22 Achieving Critical Distance 361
23 Reflexivity and Researcher Positionality 377
24 Muted Masculinities – Ethical and Personal Challenges for Male Qualitative Researchers Interviewing Women 400
25 Writing through the Body: Political, Personal, Practical 415
26 Intersectionality and Qualitative Research 429
PART IV CHALLENGES 463
27 Access and Departure 465
28 Choosing Participants 480
29 Qualitative Research across Boundaries: Indigenization, Glocalization or Creolization? 495
30 Conducting and Publishing Rigorous Qualitative Research 515
31 Writing for Different Audiences 532
32 Ethics Creep from the Core to the Periphery 546
33 Digital Ethics 562
Index 580
Length: 624 pages
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd; 1 edition (January 30, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1473926629
ISBN-13: 978-1473926622