Qualitative Research in Business and Management

Emma Bell is Professor of Organisation Studies at the Open University. Her research explores culture and materiality in organizations using qualitative methods of inquiry. She is the author of: Business Research Methods (2018 with Alan Bryman and Bill Harley), A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Research (2013 with Richard Thorpe) and Reading Management and Organization in Film (2008). She is co-editor of The Organisation of Craft Work: Identities, Meanings and Materiality (2018), Major Works in Qualitative Research in Business and Management (2015) and The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization (2014).  Emma’s research has been published in journals including Organization Studies, Human Relations, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Organization and British Journal of Management. She completed her PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2000 based on an ethnographic study of payment systems and time in the chemical industry.

VOLUME ONE: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY STUDIES
Banana Time: Job Satisfaction and Informal Interaction - Donald Roy
Perceptions and Methods in Men Who Manage - Melville Dalton
Men and Women of the Corporation - Rosabeth Kanter
Manufacturing Consent - Michael Burawoy
Breakfast at Spiro’s: Dramaturgy and Dominance - Michael Rosen
The World of Corporate Managers - Robert Jackall
Engineering Humour: Masculinity Joking and Conflict in Shop-Floor Relations - David Collinson
Extract from Crafting Selves: Power Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace - Dorinne Kondo
Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation - Gideon Kunda
Theorizing Managerial Work: A Pragmatic Pluralist Approach to Interdisciplinary Research - Tony Watson
Rational Choice Situated Action and the Social Control of Organizations: The Challenger Launch Decision - Diane Vaughan
Strategizing as Lived Experience and Strategists - Dalvir Samra-Fredericks
Power Control and Resistance in ‘The Factory that Time Forgot’ - Mahmoud Ezzamel et al.
Extract from Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job - Julian Orr
Extract from The Business of Talk: Organizations in Action - Diedre Boden
Extract from Investigating Small Firms: Nice Work? - Ruth Holliday
Narrative Interviewing and Narrative Analysis in a Study of a Cross-Border Merger - Anne-Marie Söderberg
Speech Timing and Spacing: The Phenomenon of Organizational Closure - François Cooren and Gail T. Fairhurst,
VOLUME TWO: METHODS APPROACHES TECHNIQUES: GUIDES AND EXEMPLARS
The Infeasibility of Invariant Laws in Management Studies: A Reflective Dialogue in Defence of Case Studies - Tsuyoshi Numagami
The Interview: From Neutral Stance to Political Involvement - Andrea Fontana and James Frey
Rethinking Observation: From Method to Context - Michael Agrosino et al.
Notes on (Field) notes - James Clifford
The Textual Approach: Risk and Blame in Disaster Sensemaking - Robert Gephart
Triangulation in Organizational Research: A Re-presentation - Julie Wolfram Cox and John Hassard
The Storytelling Organization: A Study of Performance in an Office Supply Firm - David Boje
Semiotics and the Study of Occupational and Organizational Cultures - Stephen Barley
The Use of Grounded Theory for the Qualitative Analysis of Organizational Behaviour - Barry Turner
Reflecting on the Strategic Use of CAQDAS to Manage and Report on the Qualitative Research Process - Mark Wickham and Megan Woods
Longitudinal Field Research on Change - Andrew Pettigrew
Historical Perspectives in Organization Studies: Factual Narrative and Archeo-Genealogical - Michael Rowlinson
Action Research: Explaining the Diversity - Cathy Cassell and Phil Johnson
Photography and Voice in Critical Qualitative Management Research - Samantha Warren
Moments Mixed Methods and Paradigm Dialogues - Norman Denzin
VOLUME THREE: PRACTICES AND PREOCCUPATIONS
Extract from The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research - Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln
Learning to Be a Qualitative Management Researcher - Catherine Cassell et al.
Getting In Getting On Getting Out and Getting Back - David Buchanan et al.
Reflections on the Researcher-Researched Relationship: A Woman Interviewing Men - Terry Arendell
Real-Time Reflexivity: Prods to Reflection - Karl Weick
Towards an Integrative Reflexivity in Organizational Research - Leah Tomkins and Virginia Eatough
Appealing Work: An Investigation of How Ethnographic Texts Convince - Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke
The Philosophy and Politics of Quality in Qualitative Organizational Research - John Amis and Michael Silk
Objectivity and Reliability in Qualitative Analysis: Realist Contextualist and Radical Constructionist Epistemologies - Anna Madill et al.
Whatever Happened to Organizational Ethnography: A Review of the Field of Organizational Ethnography and Anthropological Studies - S.P. Bate
Working with Pluralism: Determining Quality in Qualitative Research - Mark Easterby-Smith, Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke
The Role of the Researcher: An Analysis of Narrative Position in Organisation Theory - Mary Jo Hatch
The Professional Apprentice: Observations of Fieldwork Roles in Two Organizational Settings - John Van Maanen and Deborah Kolb
In Defense of Being “Native”: The Case for Insider Academic Research - Teresa Brannick and David Coghlan
Ethics and Ethnography - Robert Dingwall
Extract from Qualitative Methods in Management Research - Evert Gummesson
Making Sense as a Personal Process - Judi Marshall
My Affair with the “Other”: Identity Journeys across the Research-Practice Divide - Laura Empson
VOLUME FOUR: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
Secrecy and Disclosure in Fieldwork - Richard Mitchell
Organization Science as Social Construction: Postmodern Potentials - Kenneth Gergen and Tojo Joseph Thatchenkerry
Farewell to Criteriology - Thomas Schwandt
Reflexive Inquiry in Organizational Research: Questions and Possibilities - Ann Cunliffe
The Action Turn: Towards a Transformational Social Science - Peter Reason and William Torbert
Signing My Life Away? Researching Sex and Organization - Joanna Brewis
Evaluating Qualitative Management Research: Towards a Contingent Criteriology - Phil Johnson et al.
Postcolonialism and the Politics of Qualitative Research in International Business - Gavin Jack and Robert Westwood
Organization Studies and Epistemic Coloniality in Latin America: Thinking Otherness from the Margins - Eduardo Ibbaro-Colado
Fitting Oval Pegs into Round Holes: Tensions in Evaluating and Publishing Qualitative Research in Top-Tier North American Journals - Michael Pratt
Hegemonic Academic Practices: Experiences of Publishing from the Periphery - Susan Meriläinen et al.,
Case Study as Disciplinary Convention: Evidence from International Business Journals - Rebecca Piekkari, Catherine Welsh and Eriikka Paavilainen
Managerialism and Management Research: Would Melville Dalton Get a Job Today? - Emma Bell
Ways of constructing research questions: gap-spotting or problematization? - Jörgen Sandberg and Mats Alvesson