Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research

2017 ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rifat Kamasak ◽  
Altan Kar ◽  
Meltem Yavuz ◽  
Sibel Baykut
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Specific Method ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Social Content ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
The Social

This chapter aims to elaborate different research methods that can be employed in organizational studies. Since the complex and indivisible relationships between the constructs and nature of the social content about the phenomena can be understood better through qualitative methods, importance of qualitative investigation is mentioned and a detailed explanation of grounded theory data analysis as a qualitative method is provided. Grounded Theory mainly suggests that theory can be discovered in qualitative data. The theory employs a specific method that follows symbolic interactionism in viewing humans as active agents in their own lives who create meaning in the processes of action and interaction. Grounded Theory which deems researchers as active participants in the construction of knowledge leading to generation of theory has been used in organizational research widely. Therefore, the chapter also offers an example of the application of grounded theory by using several extracts from the sample transcripts of interviewees.

scholarly journals Oral History and Organizational Research: Challenges of Building Knowledge about the Past

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (99) ◽  
pp. 722-756
Author(s):  
Patricia Ayumi Hodge ◽  
Alessandra de Sá Mello da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Oral history has been increasingly used in management research in recent years, bringing to the forefront the view of individuals about past organizational phenomena. However, this use has not yet fully explored the construction of knowledge about the past. Instead, it has focused on studying the present and, therefore, hardly distinguishes oral history from qualitative methods such as case studies and in-depth interviews. How then should we use oral history and its historiography that has made it quite distinctive in history? How should we use individuals’ views to construct new knowledge of the past? This paper addresses these two questions, advocating for the use of oral history both as a theoretical-methodological approach and subfield of history, as well as firmly engaged with historical organizational studies. To that end, we review the trajectory of oral history, then we analyze 16 Brazilian papers on oral history, highlighting the distinctive characteristics of the approach, and, finally, we present research possibilities in historical organizational studies.

Using NVIVO with Grounded Theory and other Qualitative Methods

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Elizabeth EnglandKennedy
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
Survey Instruments ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis Software

This paper demonstrates the potential usefulness of the NVivo7 software for developing grounded theory through semantic analysis and for making grounded theory more accessible to students and researchers. Use of qualitative data analysis software early in the research process can impact research design, including the creation of interview protocols and survey instruments. It can also be useful later in the process for content and discourse analyses. NVivo is a software program designed to facilitate coding and analysis of qualitative data; it includes "query" functions, which are specific searches that the software can perform on data.

scholarly journals The Concept of A Marriage Agreement in the Compilation of Islamic Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Haerunnisa Yunus ◽  
Rusli Rusli ◽  
Abidin Abidin
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Legal Action ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Legal Consequences

The aim of this paper is to discusse the concept of a marriage agreement in the Compilation of Islamic Law. This study is literature review research with a qualitative methods. The  data was gathered through content analysis and written material. Data analysis was analyzed using grounded theory approach and thematic building. The result of research shows basically, there is no difference between the Marriage Law and the Islamic Law Compilation regarding the marriage agreement. Second, the legal consequences of the marriage agreement made by each party—husband and wife, are binding. Therefore, if a violation occurs, each party can take legal action.

scholarly journals Jaringan Sosial Petani dalam Distribusi Hasil Produksi Garam di Gampong Tanoh Anoe Kecamatan Jangka Kabupaten Bireuen

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Nailul Rahmi ◽  
Amiruddin Ketaren
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
The Social

This research was conducted to see how the social network of salt farmers in distributing salt production and their efforts to maintain the existing social networks between salt farmers and distributors. The theory is based on Barry Wellman's theory of interconnecting social networks between actors. Data collection uses non-participant observation methods, namely researchers directly observe how the informants behave and gain direct experience, making it easier for researchers to perform data analysis. The analysis uses descriptive qualitative methods, namely with the aim of providing an overview of social problems through data in the form of descriptions of words or pictures. From the research results, it can be concluded that there are two forms of salt farmer network, namely the network with salt muge and the network with UD Milhy Jaya. As for the efforts to maintain the social network of salt farmers, namely by trust, increasing productivity, improving quality, and determining prices.AbstrakPenelitian ini dilakukan dengan tujuan agar dapat melihat bagaimana jaringan sosial petani garam dalam mendistribusikan hasil produksi garam dan upaya mempertahankan jaringan sosial yang sudah ada antara petani garam dengan distributornya. Teori yang menjadi landasan penelitian ini adalah teori Barry Wellman tentang jaringan sosial yang saling menghubungkan antar aktor. Pengumpulan data memakai metode observasi non-partisipan yaitu peneliti mengamati langsung bagaimana perilaku dari informan dan memperoleh pengalaman langsung sehingga memudahkan peneliti dalam melakukan analisis data. Analisis menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif yaitu dengan tujuan memberikan sebuah gambaran tentang masalah sosial melalui data berbentuk uraian kata-kata ataupun gambar. Dari hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa bentuk jaringan petani garam ada dua yaitu jaringan dengan muge garam dan jaringan dengan UD Milhy Jaya. Adapun upaya mempertahankan jaringan sosial petani garam yaitu dengan kepercayaan, meningkatkan produktivitas, meningkatkan kualitas, dan penentuan harga.

Freedom as a trigger for musical creativity

2021 ◽  
pp. 1321103X2097480
Author(s):  
Luciano da Costa Nazario
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Dysfunctional Beliefs ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Creative Agency ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
The Social

This article presents the results of a qualitative study that explored how freedom in music can stimulate creative development in students. A series of musical and pedagogical activities, called Creative Freedom, which involved favourable conditions for autonomy and creative agency, was developed. This study was conducted between 2013 and 2018 in two different universities and involved a total of 72 musical volunteers. The data analysis methodology chosen for this study was grounded theory, with the aim of understanding the social and individual meanings present during the empirical research. The findings showed empirical evidence that freedom can enable creative development through the minimization of dysfunctional beliefs and the promotion of a more positive self-concept, allowing students to glimpse musical abilities that they had not previously noticed.

scholarly journals MELUKISKAN AKUNTANSI DENGAN KUAS INTERPRETIF

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Nurhayati Nurhayati
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Interpretive Research ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Narrative Case Studies

This  study  departs  from  the  domination  of  accounting  studies  using the   paradigm   of   positivistic   methodology.   The   aim   in   this study<br />provides  an  alternative  approach  in  developing  interpretive  accounting research.  Triyuwono  (2013)  says  there  are  five paradigms  in  the  social sciences:   positivism,   interpretivism,   criticism   postmodernism,   and spiritualists.    Interpretivis    paradigm,    critical,    postmodernist    and spiritualists  using  qualitative  methods,  which  is  the  development  of positivistic paradigm. This paradigm is not mutually exclusive, ideally an accounting  researchers  must  be  able to  accept this  paradigm, called“multiparadigma”  (Triyuwono,  2013).  Interpretive  considers  that  truth, reality or real  life  does not have a one-sided,  but it has many  facets, can be  examined from  various  viewpoints.  Design  research  in  interpretive research,  phenomenology,  ethnography, ethnometodology,  narrative, case studies, and grounded theory.

scholarly journals Applying Qualitative Methods in Organizations: A Note for Industrial/Organizational Psychologists

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ehigie ◽  
Rebecca Ehigie
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Delphi Method ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Nominal Group Technique ◽  
Nominal Group ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technique Delphi

Early approach to research in industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology was oriented towards quantitative techniques as a result of influences from the social sciences. As the focus of I/O psychology expands from psychological test development to other personnel functions, there has been an inclusion of qualitative methods in I/O psychology practice. The present paper therefore examines how qualitative methods like observation, interviews, ethnography, focus group discussion, nominal group technique, Delphi method, and projective techniques can be used by I/O psychologists in organizational studies. It is believed that knowledge gained on the application s of these qualitative methods would enhance understanding of workers’ behaviors in organizations and facilitate management decisions. Empirical studies are also presented, on how these qualitative methods have successfully been used in organization.

scholarly journals Comprehensive and Clear: A Review of H. Russell Bernard and G.W. Ryan's Analyzing Qualitative Data: Systematic Approaches

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Victor
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Schema Analysis

In their book Analyzing Qualitative Data: Systematic Approaches, Bernard and Ryan (2010) present a thorough review of qualitative data analysis. Main topic areas include data collection, coding, development of themes, qualitative analysis of words and detailed descriptions of grounded theory, content analysis, and schema analysis. This book is applicable and appropriate for a variety of professionals in the social sciences.

The Essential Ambiguity of the Social

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Green
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
The Social

Methodological divisions in sociology, the study of the social, are not just deep and persistent but patterned—most obviously in the separate development of qualitative methods in ethnography and grounded theory, but also in subsidiary divisions within those separations, following the same pattern. The pattern being too deep-rooted to be explained as empirical happenstance, it will be explored here as the effect of an equally deep-rooted condition. More exactly, through postulating that sociology’s subject-matter, the social, is ontologically rooted in an essential ambiguity between abstraction and individuation. Four criteria are drawn from the idea of the dichotomy being constitutively essential, which this or any alternative candidates must meet. The article conducts the postulate through the criteria, and applies the criterion of separating better from worse sociological theory to the work of Pierre Bourdieu.

scholarly journals Outsiders in the Experts’ World: A Grounded Theory Study of Consumers and the Social World of Health Care

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402090342
Author(s):  
Jennifer Chamberlain-Salaun ◽  
Kim Usher ◽  
Jane Mills
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social World ◽  
Grounded Theory Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Collection Methods

This article presents findings from a grounded theory study, which investigated interactions between health professionals and consumers. The authors used Corbin and Strauss’s evolved version of grounded theory, which is underpinned by symbolic interactionism. The study sample included 23 consumers and nine health professionals. Data collection methods included demographic questionnaires, interviews, consumer diaries, digital storytelling, observations, and field notes. Data analysis was conducted using essential grounded theory methods. The resultant grounded theory consists of five categories: (a) Unexpected entrance, (b) Learning a new role, (c) Establishing a presence, (d) Confronting the dichotomy of “us and them,” and (e) Tailored care. Findings suggest that despite consumers and health professionals’ roles, consumers are outsiders in the social world of health care. Progress toward empowered consumers who are in control of their health and health care is slow and care that is truly consumer-centered is still the exception not the rule.

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