The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication

Boris H. J. M. Brummans is a Professor in the Département de Communication at the Université de Montréal in Canada. His research interests include agency, mindful organizing, organizational communication, organizational ethnography, and process philosophy. He has contributed chapters to several edited books and his articles appear in international peer-reviewed journals such as Communication Monographs, Human Relations, Information, Communication & Society, Management Communication Quarterly, Organization Studies, and Qualitative Inquiry. His edited volume, The Agency of Organizing: Perspectives and Case Studies (Routledge), received the 2018 Outstanding Edited Book Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association and he served as an Associate Editor of Management Communication Quarterly from 2015 to 2019. Currently, he is Chair of the International Communication Association′s (ICA) Organizational Communication Division. Bryan C. Taylor is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the USA. His research and teaching interests include qualitative research methods, organizational culture, and critical security studies. His qualitative research has been published in journals including Communication Research, Culture and Organization, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Western Journal of Communication, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Management Communication Quarterly, and the Romanian Journal Communication and Public Relations. He is the co-author of three editions of Qualitative Communication Research Methods (SAGE), and co-editor of Nuclear Legacies: Communication, Controversy, and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Complex (Lexington Books), as well as The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Security. Anu Sivunen is Professor of Communication at University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Her research focuses on new forms of organizing, such as remote and flexible work arrangements, communication processes and identity issues in global teams, and organizational communication technologies and their affordances. Her research interests also include employees’ work-life boundary management and organizational space. Her qualitative and conceptual work has appeared in international publications from a variety of disciplines, such as Academy of Management Annals, Human Relations, Information Technology and People, International Journal of Communication, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, and Small Group Research. This work has earned awards from the National Communication Association, International Communication Association, and Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. Anu has been a Visiting Scholar at University of California, Santa Barbara and at Stanford University in the USA.

Foreword - James R. Barker
Introduction: Toward a Methodological Lingua Franca for Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication - Boris H. J. M. Brummans, Bryan C. Taylor, and Anu Sivunen
Part 1: Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research
Chapter 1: From Mixed Methods to Mixed Research Approaches for Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Jody L. S. Jahn and Karen K. Myers
Chapter 2: Ethnographic Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Angela N. Gist-Mackey and Cristin A. Compton
Chapter 3: Rhetorical Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Charles Conrad and George Cheney
Chapter 4: Pragmatist Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - François Cooren, Philippe Lorino, and Daniel Robichaud
Chapter 5: Phenomenological Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Rebecca J. Meisenbach and Madeline S. Pringle
Chapter 6: Approaches to Qualitative Research on the Communicative Constitution of Organizations - Theresa Castor
Chapter 7: Feminist Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Patrice M. Buzzanell, Spencer Margulies, Evgeniya Pyatovskaya, and Patricia K. Abijah
Chapter 8: Critical Race Theory and Intersectional Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Jasmine T. Austin and Tianna L. Cobb
Chapter 9: Postcolonial Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication - Mahuya Pal, Beatriz Nieto-Fernandez, and Silpa Satheesh
Chapter 10: Queer Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Jamie McDonald and Elizabeth K. Eger
Chapter 11: Ethnography of Communication Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Trudy Milburn and Sunny Lie Owens
Chapter 12: Autoethnography and Organizational Communication: Tracing their Convergence and Divergence - Kurt Lindemann and Yea-Wen Chen
Chapter 13: Engaged Scholarship Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - J. Kevin Barge and Anna W. Wolfe
Part 2: Data Collection in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research: Methods and Issues
Chapter 14: Research Design in Qualitative Organizational Communication Studies - Bryan C. Taylor and Ryan S. Bisel
Chapter 15: Challenges Faced by Qualitative Researchers in Negotiating Access to Organizational Communication Settings - Keri K. Stephens, Craig R. Scott, and Nancy H. Carlson
Chapter 16: Interviews and Focus Groups in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Brenda L. Berkelaar
Chapter 17: Participatory Methods in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Rebecca Gill and Joshua B. Barbour
Chapter 18: Collecting Digital Data in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Jennifer L. Gibbs and Salla-Maaria Laaksonen
Chapter 19: Collecting Visual Data in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson
Part 3: Data Analysis and Representation in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research: Methods and Issues
Chapter 20: Phronetic Iterative Qualitative Data Analysis (PIQDA) in Organizational Communication Research - Sarah J. Tracy, Angela Gist-Mackey, and Marco Dehnert
Chapter 21: Narrative Analysis in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Stephanie L. Dailey, Larry Davis Browning, and Jan-Oddvar Sørnes
Chapter 22: Rhetorical Analysis in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Chantal Benoit-Barné and Mathieu Chaput
Chapter 23: Conversation Analysis in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Jonathan Clifton and Jakob Rømer Barfod
Chapter 24: Ventriloquial Analysis in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Ellen Nathues, François Cooren, and Mark van Vuuren
Chapter 25: Analysis of Sociomateriality and Affect in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Jennifer J. Mease and Scott E. Branton
Chapter 26: Critical Discourse Analysis in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Debbie S. Dougherty and Blessing Okafor
Chapter 27: Past, Present, and Future Analysis of Digital Work in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Luisa Ruge-Jones, William C. Barley, and Jeffrey W. Treem
Chapter 28: Analysis of Tensions and Paradoxes in Qualitative Organizational Communication Research - Gail T. Fairhurst and Linda L. Putnam
Chapter 29: A Process Ontology Perspective on Qualitative Analysis in Organizational Communication Research - Consuelo Vásquez, Viviane Sergi, and Anthony Hussenot
Chapter 30: Positionings: Toward a Relational Understanding of Representation and Writing in Organizational Communication Research - Oana Brindusa Albu, Boukje Cnossen, and Chahrazad Abdallah
Part 4: The Future of Qualitative Organizational Communication Research
Chapter 31: Digital Forensics: A Guide to Conducting Qualitative Research on Organizational Communication and Digital Technology - Mikkel Flyverbom, Paul M. Leonardi, and Nitzan Navick
Chapter 32: Hybridity, Visibility, and Organizing: Globalization and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Communication Research - Shiv Ganesh, Cynthia Stohl, and Samantha James
Chapter 33: Organizing Post-qualitative Research in Organizational Communication - Kate Lockwood Harris
Chapter 34: Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication Post-COVID-19 - Kirstie McAllum, Stephanie Fox, Laura Ginoux, Heather Zoller, Andrea Zorn, and Theodore E. Zorn
Afterword from the Perspective of a Management Scholar - Silvia Gherardi
Afterword from the Perspective of Two Organizational Communication Scholars - Eric M. Eisenberg and Patricia Geist-Martin