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Research methods

Qualitative and field methods, research design and data for organizational research.

Of its 162 readings, 4 are assigned in two or more sources and listed first, with the number of sources beside each (in bold for the core readings, in 4 or more); the 158 listed in only one source are folded under each heading.

Drawn from: Cameron (Wharton); Amit (Wharton); DiMaggio (Princeton); Anteby (Boston University); Yue (USC); Zhou (HKU); Dobbin (Harvard); Martin (Berkeley); Pollock (Tennessee). Full details of the sources are on the reading lists page.

By decade

Before 1950: 0 readings<19501950s: 1 reading1950s1960s: 0 readings1960s1970s: 4 readings1970s1980s: 6 readings1980s1990s: 30 readings1990s2000s: 52 readings2000s2010s: 65 readings652010s2020s: 3 readings2020s
Most date from the 2010s; half were published in 2007 or later.

W2.1 Qualitative research design and theory building

  1. Bansal, P., & Corley, K. (2012). Publishing in AMJ —Part 7: What's Different about Qualitative Research? Academy of Management Journal, 55(3), 509–513. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2012.40032
22 more, listed in one source
  1. Eisenhardt, K. M. (1989). Building Theories from Case Study Research. Academy of Management Review, 14(4), 532. https://doi.org/10.2307/258557
  2. Eisenhardt, K. M. (1989). Making fast strategic decisions in high velocity environments. Academy of Management Journal.
  3. Ragin, C., & Becker, H. S. (1992). What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry. Cambridge University Press (eds.).
  4. Yin, R. (1994). Case Study Research: Design and Methods. Sage.
  5. Brown, S. L., & Eisenhardt, K. M. (1997). The Art of Continuous Change: Linking Complexity Theory and Time-Paced Evolution in Relentlessly Shifting Organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393807
  6. Alford, R. (1998). Designing a Research Project. In The Craft of Inquiry (pp. 21–31).
  7. Locke, K. (2001). Grounded Theory in Management Research. Sage Publications, 1-43. https://doi.org/10.4135/9780857024428
  8. Locke, K., & Golden‐Biddle, K. (2002). An Introduction to Qualitative Research: Its Potential for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. In S. G. Rogelberg (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (pp. 99–118). Blackwell Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470756669.ch5
  9. Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., & Williams, J. M. (2003). From topics to questions, and Chapter 4: From questions to problems. In The Craft of Research (pp. 40–71). The University of Chicago Press.
  10. Lofland, J., Snow, D. A., Anderson, L., & Lofland, L. H. (2005). Asking questions. In Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis (pp. 144–167). Wadsworth Publishing Company.
  11. Small, M. (2005). Lost in Translation: How Not to Make Qualitative Work More Scientific. NSF Report, Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research.
  12. Lamont, M., & White, P. (2005). National Science Foundation Report from the Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research. National Science Foundation, 1-18.
  13. Blee, K. (2005). Qualitative Research Standards of Rigor and Sociology and How They Might Be Communicated. NSF Report, Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research.
  14. Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (2007). The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. In Hawthorne (pp. 1–43). Aldine de Gruyter.
  15. Van Maanen, J., Sørensen, J. B., & Mitchell, T. R. (2007). The interplay between theory and method. Academy of Management Review, 32(4), 1145–1154. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2007.26586080
  16. Eisenhardt, K. M., & Graebner, M. E. (2007). Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges. Academy of Management Journal, 50(1), 25–32. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2007.24160888
  17. Silverman, D., & Marvasti, A. (2008). Selecting a topic. In Doing Qualitative Research: A Comprehensive Guide (pp. 103–127). Sage Publications.
  18. Luker, K. (2008). What is this a Case of? In Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences (pp. 51–75). Harvard University Press.
  19. Small, M. L. (2009). `How many cases do I need?': On science and the logic of case selection in field-based research. Ethnography, 10(1), 5–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138108099586
  20. Charmaz, K. (2010). An Invitation to Grounded Theory, and Chapter 6: Reconstructing Theory in Grounded Theory Studies. In Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis (pp. 1–12). Sage, 123-150.
  21. Langley, A., & Abdallah, C. (2015). Templates and Turns in Qualitative Studies of Strategy and Management. In Research methods for strategic management (pp. 201–235). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1479-8387(2011)0000006007
  22. Pratt, M. G., Kaplan, S., & Whittington, R. (2020). Editorial Essay: The Tumult over Transparency: Decoupling Transparency from Replication in Establishing Trustworthy Qualitative Research. Administrative Science Quarterly, 65(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839219887663

W2.2 Ethnography and fieldwork

  1. Willis, P. (1977). Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. Columbia University Press.2
  2. Barker, J. R. (1993). Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-Managing Teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38(3), 408. https://doi.org/10.2307/23933742
39 more, listed in one source
  1. Roy, D. (1952). Quota Restriction and Goldbricking in a Machine Shop. American Journal of Sociology, 57(5), 427–442. https://doi.org/10.1086/221011
  2. Van Maanen, J., & Kolb, D. (1985). The professional apprentice: Observations on fieldwork roles in two organizational settings. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. JAI Press.
  3. Goffman, E. (1989). On Fieldwork. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 18(2), 123–132. https://doi.org/10.1177/089124189018002001
  4. Barley, S. R. (1990). Images of Imaging: Notes on Doing Longitudinal Field Work. Organization Science, 1(3), 220–247. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1.3.220
  5. Van Maanen, J. (1991). The smile factory: Work at Disneyland. In Organizational Culture. Sage.
  6. Golden-Biddle, K., & Locke, K. (1993). Appealing Work: An Investigation of How Ethnographic Texts Convince. Organization Science, 4(4), 595–616. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.4.4.595
  7. Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. 1-65. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226206851.001.0001
  8. MacLeod, J. (1996). On the Making of. In Ain't No Makin' It.
  9. MacDuffie, J. P. (1997). The Road to “Root Cause”: Shop-Floor Problem-Solving at Three Auto Assembly Plants. Management Science, 43(4), 479–502. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.43.4.479
  10. Duneier, M., & Carter, O. (1999). Sidewalk. Macmillan.
  11. Duneier, M. (1999). The Making of Sidewalk. In Sidewalk.
  12. Perlow, L. A. (1999). The Time Famine: Toward a Sociology of Work Time. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(1), 57–81. https://doi.org/10.2307/2667031
  13. Pratt, M. G. (2000). The Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent: Managing Identification among Amway Distributors. Administrative Science Quarterly, 45(3), 456–493. https://doi.org/10.2307/2667106
  14. Feldman, M. S., Bell, J., & Berger, M. T. (2003). Gaining access: A practical and theoretical guide for qualitative researchers. Rowman Altamira.
  15. Small, M. L. (2004). Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226762937.001.0001
  16. Lofland, J., Snow, D. A., Anderson, L., & Lofland, L. H. (2006). Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis (4th ed.). Wadsworth.
  17. Klein, K. J., Ziegert, J. C., Knight, A. P., & Xiao, Y. (2006). Dynamic Delegation: Shared, Hierarchical, and Deindividualized Leadership in Extreme Action Teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 51(4), 590–621. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.51.4.590
  18. Dutton, J. E., Worline, M. C., Frost, P. J., & Lilius, J. (2006). Explaining Compassion Organizing. Administrative Science Quarterly, 51(1), 59–96. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.51.1.59
  19. Bechky, B. A. (2006). Gaffers, Gofers, and Grips: Role-Based Coordination in Temporary Organizations. Organization Science, 17(1), 3–21. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1050.0149
  20. Lofland, D., Snow, D., Anderson, L., & Lofland, L. H. (2006). Logging data. In Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis.
  21. Tavory, I., & Timmermans, S. (2009). Two cases of ethnography: Grounded theory and the extended case method. Ethnography, 10(3), 243–263. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138109339042
  22. Rivera, L. A. (2010). Status Distinctions in Interaction: Social Selection and Exclusion at an Elite Nightclub. Qualitative Sociology, 33(3), 229–255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-010-9152-2
  23. Lareau, A. (2011). Appendix A. Methodology: Enduring Dilemmas in Fieldwork. In Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (2nd ed., pp. 345–360). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520949904-019
  24. Bechky, B. A., & Okhuysen, G. A. (2011). Expecting the Unexpected? How SWAT Officers and Film Crews Handle Surprises. Academy of Management Journal, 54(2), 239–261. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2011.60263060
  25. Howard-Grenville, J., Golden-Biddle, K., Irwin, J., & Mao, J. (2011). Liminality as Cultural Process for Cultural Change. Organization Science, 22(2), 522–539. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0554
  26. Van Maanen, J. (2011). Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (2nd ed.). 145-182. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226849638.001.0001
  27. Michel, A. (2011). Transcending Socialization: A Nine-Year Ethnography of the Body’s Role in Organizational Control and Knowledge Workers’ Transformation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 56(3), 325–368. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839212437519
  28. Desmond, M. (2012). Disposable Ties and the Urban Poor. American Journal of Sociology, 117(5), 1295–1335. https://doi.org/10.1086/663574
  29. Rivera, L. A. (2012). Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms. American Sociological Review, 77(6), 999–1022. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122412463213
  30. Armstrong, E., & Hamilton, L. (2013). APPENDIX C: Data Collection, Analysis, and Writing. In Paying for the Party (pp. 267–274). Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674073517.c13
  31. Anteby, M. (2013). Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education. University of Chicago Press, 66-90. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226092508.001.0001
  32. Howard-Grenville, J., Metzger, M. L., & Meyer, A. D. (2013). Rekindling the Flame: Processes of Identity Resurrection. Academy of Management Journal, 56(1), 113–136. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2010.0778
  33. Metiu, A., & Rothbard, N. P. (2013). Task Bubbles, Artifacts, Shared Emotion, and Mutual Focus of Attention: A Comparative Study of the Microprocesses of Group Engagement. Organization Science, 24(2), 455–475. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0738
  34. Goffman, A. (2014). Methodological note. In Contention and the Dynamics of Inequality in Mexico, 1910–2010 (pp. 202–210). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107478022.011
  35. Orlikowski, W. J., & Scott, S. V. (2014). What Happens When Evaluation Goes Online? Exploring Apparatuses of Valuation in the Travel Sector. Organization Science, 25(3), 868–891. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2013.0877
  36. Lawrence, T. B., & Dover, G. (2015). Place and Institutional Work: Creating Housing for the Hard-to-house. Administrative Science Quarterly, 60(3), 371–410. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839215589813
  37. de Rond, M., Holeman, I., & Howard-Grenville, J. (2019). Sensemaking from the Body: An Enactive Ethnography of Rowing the Amazon. Academy of Management Journal, 62(6), 1961–1988. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2017.1417
  38. Cameron, L. (2020). The Good Bad job: Control and Autonomy in the Algorithmic Workplace.
  39. Kirtley, J., & O'Mahony, S. (2023). What is a pivot? Explaining when and how entrepreneurial firms decide to make strategic change and pivot. Strategic Management Journal, 44(1), 197–230. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3131

W2.3 Interviewing and sampling

  1. O'Mahony, S., & Bechky, B. A. (2006). Stretchwork: Managing the Career Progression Paradox in External Labor Markets. Academy of Management Journal, 49(5), 918–941. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2006.227981742
29 more, listed in one source
  1. Spradley, J. P. (1979). Asking descriptive questions. In The Ethnographic Interview (pp. 78–91).
  2. Biernacki, P., & Waldorf, D. (1981). Snowball Sampling: Problems and Techniques of Chain Referral Sampling. Sociological Methods & Research, 10(2), 141–163. https://doi.org/10.1177/004912418101000205
  3. Weiss, R. S. (1994). Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies. In New York (pp. 39–150). The Free Press.
  4. Charmaz, K. (1995). The Body, Identity, and Self: Adapting To Impairment. The Sociological Quarterly, 36(4), 657–680. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1995.tb00459.x
  5. Morgan, D. L. (1996). Focus Groups. Annual Review of Sociology, 22(1), 129–152. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.22.1.129
  6. Becker, H. S. (1998). Tricks of the Trade: How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226040998.001.0001
  7. Ibarra, H. (1999). Provisional Selves: Experimenting with Image and Identity in Professional Adaptation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(4), 764–791. https://doi.org/10.2307/2667055
  8. Ely, R. J., & Thomas, D. A. (2001). Cultural Diversity at Work: The Effects of Diversity Perspectives on Work Group Processes and Outcomes. Administrative Science Quarterly, 46(2), 229–273. https://doi.org/10.2307/2667087
  9. Gubrium, J. F., & Holstein, J. A. (2002). From the Individual Interview to the Interview Society. In Handbook of Interview Research: Context and Method (pp. 2–32). SAGE Publications, Inc. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412973588.n3
  10. Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative interviewing. In Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods (pp. 339–427).
  11. Hermanowicz, J. C. (2002). The Great Interview: 25 Strategies for Studying People in Bed. Qualitative Sociology, 25(4), 479–499. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1021062932081
  12. James, N., & Busher, H. (2006). Credibility, authenticity and voice: dilemmas in online interviewing. Qualitative Research, 6(3), 403–420. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794106065010
  13. Kreiner, G. E., Hollensbe, E. C., & Sheep, M. L. (2006). Where is the “Me” Among the “We”? Identity Work and the Search for Optimal Balance. Academy of Management Journal, 49(5), 1031–1057. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2006.22798186
  14. Lacy, K. (2007). Appendix: A Recipe for Studying the Black Middle Class. In Blue-Chip Black (pp. 227–234). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520940697-012
  15. Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (2007). Theoretical sampling. In The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research (pp. 45–77). Aldine de Gruyter.
  16. Anteby, M. (2008). Identity Incentives as an Engaging Form of Control: Revisiting Leniencies in an Aeronautic Plant. Organization Science, 19(2), 202–220. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.0343
  17. Bunderson, J. S., & Thompson, J. A. (2009). The Call of the Wild: Zookeepers, Callings, and the Double-edged Sword of Deeply Meaningful Work. Administrative Science Quarterly, 54(1), 32–57. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.2009.54.1.32
  18. Maitlis, S. (2009). Who Am I Now? Sensemaking and Identity in Posttraumatic Growth. In Exploring positive identities and organizations (pp. 71–100). Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203879245-11
  19. Creed, W. E. D., DeJordy, R., & Lok, J. (2010). Being the Change: Resolving Institutional Contradiction through Identity Work. Academy of Management Journal, 53(6), 1336–1364. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2010.57318357
  20. Charmaz, K. (2010). Theoretical Sampling, Saturation, Sorting. In Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis. Sage.
  21. Sonenshein, S., Dutton, J. E., Grant, A. M., Spreitzer, G. M., & Sutcliffe, K. M. (2013). Growing at Work: Employees' Interpretations of Progressive Self-Change in Organizations. Organization Science, 24(2), 552–570. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0749
  22. Dekas, K. H., Bauer, T. N., Welle, B., Kurkoski, J., & Sullivan, S. (2013). Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Version 2.0: A review and Qualitative Investigation of OCBs for Knowledge Workers at Google and beyond. Academy of Management Perspectives, 27(3), 219–237. https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2011.0097
  23. Mazmanian, M., Orlikowski, W. J., & Yates, J. (2013). The Autonomy Paradox: The Implications of Mobile Email Devices for Knowledge Professionals. Organization Science, 24(5), 1337–1357. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0806
  24. Reid, E. (2015). Embracing, Passing, Revealing, and the Ideal Worker Image: How People Navigate Expected and Experienced Professional Identities. Organization Science, 26(4), 997–1017. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2015.0975
  25. Gorbatâi, A., & Shah, S. (2015). Structural Sampling: A Technique for Illuminating Social Systems. In Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Research Methods: Pathways to Cool Ideas and Interesting Papers (pp. 283–293). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315849072-36
  26. Caza, B. B., Moss, S., & Vough, H. (2018). From Synchronizing to Harmonizing: The Process of Authenticating Multiple Work Identities. Administrative Science Quarterly, 63(4), 703–745. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839217733972
  27. Petriglieri, G., Ashford, S. J., & Wrzesniewski, A. (2019). Agony and Ecstasy in the Gig Economy: Cultivating Holding Environments for Precarious and Personalized Work Identities. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(1), 124–170. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839218759646
  28. Petriglieri, J. L., & Obodaru, O. (2019). Secure-base Relationships as Drivers of Professional Identity Development in Dual-career Couples. Administrative Science Quarterly, 64(3), 694–736. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839218783174
  29. Armstrong, E. (n.d.). Quick Tips on Interviewing; Checklist of what to do before, during, and after the interview; Memo on Theoretical Sampling.

W2.4 Archival, visual and online data

No reading here is assigned in more than one source.

29 readings listed in one source
  1. Rocheleau, D., Thomas-Slayter, B., & Edmunds, D. (1995). Gendered Resource Mapping: Focusing on Women's Spaces in the Landscape. Cultural Survival Quarterly.
  2. Gephart, R. (1997). Hazardous measures: an interpretive textual analysis of quantitative sensemaking during crises. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 18(S1), 583–622. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199711)18:1+<583::aid-job908>3.0.co;2-t
  3. Guillen, M. F. (1997). Scientific Management's Lost Aesthetic: Architecture, Organization, and the Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42(4), 682. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393654
  4. Mukerji, C. (1997). Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles. Cambridge University Press.
  5. Plummer, K. (2004). On the diversity of life documents. In Social Research Methods: A Reader. Routledge.
  6. Vaughan, D. (2004). Theorizing Disaster: Analogy, historical ethnography, and the Challenger accident. Ethnography, 5(3), 315–347. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138104045659
  7. Miller, D. (Ed.). (2005). Materiality. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386711
  8. Hsieh, H.-F., & Shannon, S. E. (2005). Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis. Qualitative Health Research, 15(9), 1277–1288. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732305276687
  9. Keane, W. (2006). Subjects and Objects. In Handbook of Material Culture (pp. 197–202). Sage Publications.
  10. Elsbach, K. D., & Pratt, M. G. (2007). The Physical Environment in Organizations. Academy of Management Annals, 1(1), 181–224. https://doi.org/10.5465/078559809
  11. Harding, D. J. (2009). Violence, Older Peers, and the Socialization of Adolescent Boys in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods. American Sociological Review, 74(3), 445–464. https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240907400306
  12. Zubrzycki, G. (2010). Aesthetic Revolt. Theory and Society.
  13. Short, J. C., Broberg, J. C., Cogliser, C. C., & Brigham, K. H. (2010). Construct Validation Using Computer-Aided Text Analysis (CATA): An Illustration Using Entrepreneurial Orientation. Organizational Research Methods, 13(2), 320–347. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428109335949
  14. McDonnell, T. (2010). Objects and Materiality. American Journal of Sociology.
  15. Sassen, S. (2011). Black and White Photography as Theorizing: Seeing What the Eye Cannot See. Sociological Forum, 26(2), 438–443. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1573-7861.2011.01251.x
  16. Gold, S. J. (2011). Sebastião Salgado and Visual Sociology. Sociological Forum, 26(2), 418–423. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1573-7861.2011.01248.x
  17. Pascoe, C. J. (2012). Studying Young People's New Media Use: Methodological Shifts and Educational Innovations. Theory Into Practice, 51(2), 76–82. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2012.662862
  18. Bail, C. A. (2014). The cultural environment: measuring culture with big data. Theory and Society, 43(3-4), 465–482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-014-9216-5
  19. Safransky, S. et al. (2014). Uniting Detroiters: Coming Together from the Ground up.
  20. Holtgraves, T. M., Chung, C. K., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2014). Using Computerized Text Analysis to Track Social Processes. In The Oxford handbook of language and social psychology (pp. 219–230). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199838639.013.037
  21. Byron, K., & Laurence, G. A. (2015). Diplomas, Photos, and Tchotchkes as Symbolic Self-Representations: Understanding Employees' Individual Use of Symbols. Academy of Management Journal, 58(1), 298–323. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2012.0932
  22. LeBaron, C., Christianson, M. K., Garrett, L., & Ilan, R. (2016). Coordinating Flexible Performance During Everyday Work: An Ethnomethodological Study of Handoff Routines. Organization Science, 27(3), 514–534. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2015.1043
  23. LeBaron, C., Jarzabkowski, P., Pratt, M. G., & Fetzer, G. (2018). An Introduction to Video Methods in Organizational Research. Organizational Research Methods, 21(2), 239–260. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428117745649
  24. Kozinets, R., & Nocker, M. (2018). Chapter 7 – Netnography: Engaging with the challenges. In Unconventional Methodology in Organization and Management Research. Oxford.
  25. Schneider, C. (2018). Making the case: A qualitative approach to studying social media documents. In Buchanan & Bryman. Oxford (Eds.), Unconventional Methodology in Organization and Management Research.
  26. Short, J. C., McKenny, A. F., & Reid, S. W. (2018). More Than Words? Computer-Aided Text Analysis in Organizational Behavior and Psychology Research. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 5(1), 415–435. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032117-104622
  27. Bryman, & Buchanan (2018). Not Another Survey – The Value of Unconventional Research. In Unconventional Methodology in Organization and Management Research. Oxford.
  28. Carton, A. M. (2018). “I’m Not Mopping the Floors, I’m Putting a Man on the Moon”: How NASA Leaders Enhanced the Meaningfulness of Work by Changing the Meaning of Work. Administrative Science Quarterly, 63(2), 323–369. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839217713748
  29. Vinokurova, N. (2019). Reshaping demand landscapes: How firms change customer preferences to better fit their products. Strategic Management Journal, 40(13), 2107–2137. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3074

W2.5 Ethics, reflexivity and positionality

No reading here is assigned in more than one source.

14 readings listed in one source
  1. Haraway, D. (1988). Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575. https://doi.org/10.2307/3178066
  2. Fine, G. A. (1993). TEN LIES OF ETHNOGRAPHY: Moral Dilemmas of Field Research. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 22(3), 267–294. https://doi.org/10.1177/089124193022003001
  3. Blee, K. M. (1998). White-Knuckle Research: Emotional Dynamics in Fieldwork with Racist Activists. Qualitative Sociology, 21(4), 381–399. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1023328309725
  4. Acker, S. (2000). In/out/side: Positioning the researcher in feminist qualitative research. Resources for Feminist Research.
  5. Scheper-Hughes, N. (2000). Ire in Ireland. Ethnography, 1(1), 117–140. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661380022230660
  6. Van Maanen, J. (2001 [1983]). The Moral Fix: On the Ethics of Field Work. In Contemporary Field Research (1st ed., pp. 269–287). Waveland Press.
  7. Venkatesh, S. (2002). `Doin' the Hustle': Constructing the Ethnographer in the American Ghetto. Ethnography, 3(1), 91–111. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138102003001004
  8. Olesen, V. L. (2010). Feminist Qualitative Research and Grounded Theory: Complexities, Criticisms, and Opportunities. In The Sage handbook of grounded theory (pp. 417–435). SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781848607941.n19
  9. Harnois, C. E. (2010). Race, Gender, and the Black Women’s Standpoint. Sociological Forum, 25(1), 68–85. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1573-7861.2009.01157.x
  10. Stark, L. (2011). Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research. University of Chicago Press, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226770888.001.0001
  11. Anteby, M. (2013). Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement. Organization Science, 24(4), 1277–1290. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0777
  12. Behar, R. (2014). Biography in the Shadows. In Translated woman: Crossing the border with Esperanza's story. Beacon Press.
  13. Behar, R. (2014). The vulnerable observer: Anthropology that breaks your heart. Beacon Press.
  14. Jerolmack, C., & Murphy, A. K. (2019). The Ethical Dilemmas and Social Scientific Trade-offs of Masking in Ethnography. Sociological Methods & Research, 48(4), 801–827. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124117701483

W2.6 Mixed, quantitative and analytic methods

No reading here is assigned in more than one source.

25 readings listed in one source
  1. Seiber, S. D. (1973). The integration of fieldwork and survey methods. American Journal of Sociology.
  2. Jick, T. D. (1979). Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Triangulation in Action. Administrative Science Quarterly, 24(4), 602. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392366
  3. Marsden, P. V. (1990). Network Data and Measurement. Annual Review of Sociology, 16(1), 435–463. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.so.16.080190.002251
  4. Scott, J. (1991). Social Network Analysis: A Handbook. Sage.
  5. Ely, R. J. (1995). The power in demography: Social constructions of gender identity at work. Academy of Management Journal, 38(3), 589–634. https://doi.org/10.2307/256740
  6. Morgan, D. L. (1998). Practical Strategies for Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Applications to Health Research. Qualitative Health Research, 8(3), 362–376. https://doi.org/10.1177/104973239800800307
  7. Edmondson, A. (1999). Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2), 350–383. https://doi.org/10.2307/2666999
  8. Fine, G. A., & Elsbach, K. D. (2000). Ethnography and Experiment in Social Psychological Theory Building: Tactics for Integrating Qualitative Field Data with Quantitative Lab Data. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36(1), 51–76. https://doi.org/10.1006/jesp.1999.1394
  9. Chandler, G. N., & Lyon, D. W. (2001). Issues of Research Design and Construct Measurement in Entrepreneurship Research: The past Decade. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 25(4), 101–113. https://doi.org/10.1177/104225870102500407
  10. Huberman, A., & Miles, M. (2002). The Qualitative Researcher's Companion. Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412986274
  11. Edmondson, A. C. (2004). Learning from Mistakes is Easier Said than Done: Group and Organizational Influences on the Detection and Correction of Human Error. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 40(1), 66–90. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021886304263849
  12. Seidel, M.-D. L., & Westphal, J. D. (2004). Research Impact: How Seemingly Innocuous Social Cues in a CEO Survey Can Lead to Change in Board of Director Network Ties. Strategic Organization, 2(3), 227–270. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127004045252
  13. Davis, J. P., Eisenhardt, K. M., & Bingham, C. B. (2007). Developing Theory Through Simulation Methods. Academy of Management Review, 32(2), 480–499. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2007.24351453
  14. Pentland, B. T., & Feldman, M. S. (2007). Narrative Networks: Patterns of Technology and Organization. Organization Science, 18(5), 781–795. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.0283
  15. Fu, P. P., Tsui, A. S., Liu, J., & Li, L. (2010). Pursuit of Whose Happiness? Executive Leaders' Transformational Behaviors and Personal Values. Administrative Science Quarterly, 55(2), 222–254. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.2010.55.2.222
  16. Thornberg, R. (2010). Schoolchildren's social representations on bullying causes. Psychology in the Schools, 47(4), 311–327. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.20472
  17. Creswell, J. W. (2011). Controversies in mixed methods research. In The Sage handbook of qualitative research (Vol. 4, pp. 269–284).
  18. Small, M. L. (2011). How to Conduct a Mixed Methods Study: Recent Trends in a Rapidly Growing Literature. Annual Review of Sociology, 37(1), 57–86. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.012809.102657
  19. Detert, J. R., & Edmondson, A. C. (2011). Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-Granted Rules of Self-Censorship at Work. Academy of Management Journal, 54(3), 461–488. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2011.61967925
  20. Hayes, G. R., Lee, C. P., & Dourish, P. (2011). Organizational routines, innovation, and flexibility: The application of narrative networks to dynamic workflow. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 80(8), e161–e177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2011.01.005
  21. Gardner, H. K. (2012). Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge. Administrative Science Quarterly, 57(1), 1–46. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839212446454
  22. Kang, S. K., DeCelles, K. A., Tilcsik, A., & Jun, S. (2016). Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market. Administrative Science Quarterly, 61(3), 469–502. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839216639577
  23. Leana, C., Meuris, J., & Lamberton, C. (2018). More Than a Feeling: The Role of Empathetic Care in Promoting Safety in Health Care. ILR Review, 71(2), 394–425. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793917720432
  24. Hafenbrack, A. C., Cameron, L. D., Spreitzer, G. M., Zhang, C., Noval, L. J., & Shaffakat, S. (2019). Helping People by Being in the Present: Mindfulness Increases Prosocial Behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
  25. Anderson, T., & Bidwell, M. (2019). Outside Insiders: Understanding the Role of Contracting in the Careers of Managerial Workers. Organization Science, 30(5), 1000–1029. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2018.1275