The Routledge Companion to Qualitative Research in Organization Studies

Raza Mir is the Seymour Hyman Professor of Management at William Paterson University, USA. He is also the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies, published in 2015. Sanjay Jain is Assistant Professor of Management at the Nazarian College of Business at California State University—Northridge, USA.

Embracing a Constructed Boundary: Mapping Qualitative Research in Organizational Studies Raza Mir and Sanjay Jain
Part I: Theories




Philosophical Foundations of Qualitative Organizational Research Cristina Neesham



Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research Thomas Greckhamer



Doing Feminist Research Qualitatively: A Review Of What Interpretive Feminist Research Means Today Marleen van der Haar



Qualitative Management Research in the Shadow of Imperialism: Some Elementary Remarks on its Othering Processes from a Muslim Perspective Farzad Rafi Khan
Part II: Traditions




Challenge of Rigor in Theory-Building from Multiple Case Research Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Timothy E. Ott



Single Cases: The What, Why and How Pinar Ozcan, Suho Han, and Melissa E. Graebner



Clio’s Toolkit: Historical Methods Beyond Theory Building from Cases Dan Wadhwani and Stephanie Decker



Stories as Social Action: Rethinking Narrative Studies of Organizing Tammar B. Zilber



Bricolage in the Field: Experimenting With Different Forms of Ethnography Anne-Laure Fayard



Innovations in Organizational Ethnography: Being Them, Even without Trying Alexandra Michel



Ethnography as Writing: How Creative Nonfiction Can Inspire Organizational Ethnographers Chahrazad Abdallah



Ethnographic Images of Work: Lessons from Journalism Jinia Mukerjee and Anca Metiu
Part III: Contexts




Studying Organizational Cultural Repertoires Davide Ravasi, Violina Rindova, and Elena Dalpiaz



Qualitative Approaches for Studying Innovation as Process Raghu Garud, Hans Berends, and Philipp Tuertscher



Whatddya' Know? Qualitative Methods in Entrepreneurship Ted Baker, Erin Powell, and Andrew E. F. Fultz



Doing Qualitative Research on Emerging Fields and Markets Nina Granqvist, Galina Kallio, and Heli Nissilä



Methodological Guidelines in the Study of Materiality and Affordances Paul Leonardi



Working, Being, and Researching in Place: A Mixed Methodological Approach for Understanding Digital Experiences Ingrid Erickson



Methods and Challenges of Conducting Research in Subsistence Environments Srinivas Sridharan
Part IV: Journeys




"Blinded by the Light" or "Seeing the Light"? Journeys of Positivist Scholars into Qualitative Inquiry Glen Kreiner, Derron Bishop and Aparna Joshi



Appreciating Emergence and Serendipity in Qualitative Research: Resisting the Urge to Follow Set Plans Rene Wiedner and Shaz Ansari



Reporting After the Summit: Getting Ethnographic Research into Print Katherine Chen



Reasoning with Qualitative Data: Balancing a Theoretical Contribution Saku Mantere



‘Standing on [transparent] shoulders’: Applying open source approaches to qualitative management research Andrew Nelson
Part V: Frontiers and Reflections




Engaging with the Visual: Opportunities for Qualitative Organizational Researchers Catherine Cassell



Building Grounded Theory with Social Media Data Emmanuelle Vaast and Cathy Urquhart



Network Models of Organizational Routines: Tracing Associations between Actions Brian T. Pentland and Peng Liu



Rewriting the Publishing Narrative for Grounded Theory Building Deborah Dougherty



The Long, Hard Road to Legitimacy for Qualitative Research: A Personal-Professional Journey Denny Gioia



Blind Alleys and Untold Stories in Qualitative Research Ann Langley