About the 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 two volumes therefore provide 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 contents of the Handbook are arranged into two volumes covering seven key themes:
Volume One: History and Tradition
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.
Volume Two: Methods and Challenges
Part One: Contemporary methods: interviews, archival analysis, autoethnography, rhetoric, historical, stories and narratives, discourse analysis, group methods, sociomateriality, fiction, metaphors, dramaturgy, diary, shadowing and thematic analysis.
Part Two: Visual methods: photographs, drawing, video, web images, semiotics and symbols, collages, documentaries.
Part Three: Methodological developments: aesthetics and smell, fuzzy set comparative analysis, sewing quilts, netnography, ethnomusicality, software, ANTI-history, emotion, and pattern matching.
Table of Contents:
VOLUME 1
Chapter 1: Introduction: Qualitative Research in Business and Management - Catherine Cassell, Ann L Cunliffe, Gina Grandy
Chapter 2: Positivist Qualitative Methods - Ning Su
Chapter 3: Qualitative Research as Interpretive Social Science - Robert P. Gephart, Jr.
Chapter 4: Pragmatism: A philosophy of practice - Barbara Simpson
Chapter 5 ′Having an Impact’: qualitative research traditions in the Critical Study of Management and their modes of influence - Craig Prichard, Fahreen Alamgir, Ozan Alakavuklar, Andrew Dickson, Suz Wilson
Chapter 6: Poststructuralism - Angelo Benozzo
Chapter 7: Mixed Methods - Jose F. Molina-Azorin
Chapter 8: Resisting Colonization in Business and Management Studies: From Postcolonialism to Decolonization - Alia Weston and Miguel Imas
Chapter 9: Feminist Methodologies - Nancy Harding
Chapter 10: Indigenous Qualitative Research - Dr. Bettina Schneider and Dr. Bob Kayseas
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Chapter 12: Hermeneutics: Interpretation, Understanding and Sense-making - Leah Tomkins and Virginia Eatough
Chapter 13: Critical Realism and Qualitative Research: An Introductory Overview - Steve Vincent and Joe O’Mahoney
Chapter 14: Ethnomethodology - Andrea Whittle
Chapter 15: From Grounded Theory to Grounded Theorizing in Qualitative Research - Judith Holton
Chapter 16: Researching Bodies: Embodied Fieldwork for Knowledge Work, which turns out to be Embodied - Alexandra Michel
Chapter 17: Organizational Ethnographies - Sylwia Ciuk, Juliette Koning and Monika Kostera
Chapter 18: Action Research: Knowing and Changing (in) Organizational Contexts - Scaratti Giuseppe, Gorli Mara, Galuppo Laura and Ripamonti Silvio
Chapter 19: Researching Organizational Concepts Processually: The Case of Identity - Fernando F. Fachin and Ann Langley
Chapter 20: Designing Strategy-as-Practice Research - Chahrazad Abdallah, Joëlle Basque and Linda Rouleau
Chapter 21: The Case Study in Management Research: Beyond the Positivist Legacy of Eisenhardt and Yin? - Rebecca Piekkari and Catherine Welch
Chapter 22: Achieving critical distance - Simon Hayward and Catherine Cassell
Chapter 23: Reflexivity and Researcher Positionality - Sandra Corlett and Sharon Mavin
Chapter 24: Muted Masculinities – Ethical and Personal Challenges for Male Qualitative Researchers Interviewing Women - Fahad M. Hassan, Caroline Gatrell and Carolyn Downs
Chapter 25: Writing through the body: Political, personal, practical - Amanda Sinclair and Donna Ladkin
Chapter 26: Intersectionality and Qualitative Research - Jenny K Rodriguez
Chapter 27: Access and Departure - Chris Land and Scott Taylor
Chapter 28: Choosing participants - Mark N.K. Saunders and Keith Townsend
Chapter 29: Qualitative research across boundaries: indigenization, glocalization or creolization? - Giampietro Gobo
Chapter 30: Conducting and Publishing Rigorous Qualitative Research - Alexandra Rheinhardt, Glen E. Kreiner, Dennis A. Gioia and Kevin G. Corley
Chapter 31: Writing for Different Audiences - Michael D. Myers
Chapter 32: Ethics Creep from the Core to the Periphery - Emma Bell and Nivedita Kothiyal
Chapter 33: Digital Ethics - Rebecca Whiting and Katrina Pritchard
VOLUME 2
Chapter 1: Introduction: Qualitative Research in Business and Management - Catherine Cassell, Ann L Cunliffe, Gina Grandy
Chapter 2: Autoethnography - Kathryn Haynes
Chapter 3: Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills - Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills
Chapter 4: Rhetoric - Peter Hamilton
Chapter 5: Stories and narratives - Yiannis Gabriel
Chapter 6: Organizational Discourse Analysis - Gail T. Fairhurst and François Cooren
Chapter 7: Towards the wholesome interview: Technical, social and political dimensions - Bill Lee and Usman Aslam
Chapter 8: Group Methods - Tracey M. Coule
Chapter 9: Sociomateriality and Qualitative Research: Method, Matter and Meaning - Olivia Davies and Kathleen Riach
Chapter 10: Analysing Fiction: The example of women’s work in Disney Animations (1937-2013) - Mark Learmonth & Martyn Griffin
Chapter 11: Dramaturgical Methods - Peter Birch
Chapter 12: Capturing the Complexity of Daily Workplace Experiences Using Qualitative Diaries - Laura S. Radcliffe
Chapter 13: Going with the flow: Shadowing in Organisations - Seonaidh Mcdonald
Chapter 14: Thematic Analysis in Organizational Research - Nigel King
Chapter 15: Photography in qualitative organizational research: conceptual, analytical and ethical issues in photo-elicitation inspired methods - Samantha Warren
Chapter 16: Drawing - Jenna Ward & Harriet Shortt
Chapter 17: Analysing Web Images - Katrina Pritchard and Rebecca Whiting
Chapter 18: Making meaning from Multimodality: Embodied communication in a business pitch setting - Rowena Viney, Jean Clarke and Joep Cornelissen
Chapter 19: Collage Visual Data: Pathways to Data Analysis - Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki and Georgia Stavraki
Chapter 20: Qualitative Research through Documentary Film Making: Questions and Possibilities - Rachel Morgan, Annilee M. Game and Natasha Slutskaya
Chapter 21: Aesthetics: Working with the senses - Martyna Sliwa
Chapter 22: Sewing in management and organization research: The subversive stitch and the politics of cloth revisited - Ann Rippin and Paula Hyde
Chapter 23: Netnography for Management and Business Research - Robert V. Kozinets
Chapter 24: Ethnomusicology - Nic Beech and Stephen Broad
Chapter 25: Advances in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Application of fuzzy set in business and management research - Ursula F. Ott, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, and Samia Ferdous Hoque
Chapter 26: ANTi-History: an alternative approach to history - Gabrielle Durepos and Albert J. Mills
Chapter 27: “Use Your Feelings:” Emotion as a Tool for Qualitative Research - Kendra Rivera
Chapter 28: Pattern matching in qualitative analysis - Noemi Sincoviks
Chapter 29: Metaphorising the research process - Mats Alvesson
Review :
In an age of handbook overload, this collection truly stands out. Covering an impressive range of approaches, issues, and techniques, it spans conventional and novel orientations with nuanced treatment from thoughtful and experienced researchers. This is a work that honors the "tried and true" even as it explores the cutting edge – a new essential companion for graduate education in qualitative inquiry.
