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DDBA 804: Qualitative Research Methods Report a Broken Link

The purpose of this course is to provide you with an introduction to the range of methods, tools, and techniques that fall under the very large umbrella of qualitative research. This is an overwhelming task because qualitative methods are so incredibly diverse. They represent many different philosophical traditions, they draw on a variety of types of data and, importantly, seek to answer very different kinds of questions.

Module 1 - Starting a Qualitative Research Project (Initiation and Design)

Reading 1: Cunliffe, A. L. (2011). Crafting qualitative research: Morgan and Smircich 30 years on. Organizational Research Methods, 14(4), 647–673.
Reading 2: Bishop, E. C., & Shepherd, M. L. (2011).  Ethical reflections: Examining reflexivity through the narrative paradigm. Qualitative Health Research, 21(9), 1283–1294.
Reading 3: Walsh, R. (2003). The methods of reflexivity. The Humanistic Psychologist, 31(4), 51-66.

Module 2 - Qualitative Research Methodology

Reading 4: Bansal, P., Smith, W. K., & Vaara, E. (2018). New ways of seeing through qualitative research. Academy of Management Journal, 61(4), 1189–1195.
Reading 5: Cassell, C., Bishop, V., Symon, G., Johnson, P., & Buehring, A. (2009). Learning to be a qualitative management researcher. Management Learning, 40(5), 513-533. 
Reading 6: Alvesson, M. (2003). Beyond neopositivists, romantics, and localists: A reflexive approach to Interviews in organizational research. Academy of Management Review, 28(1), 13–33. .

Module 3 - Building the Conceptual Framework

There are no readings in this module

Module 4 - Building the Research Design

There are no readings in this module

Module 5 - Data Collection Methods

There are no readings in this module

Module 6 - Managing, Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Reading 7: Lacity, M. C., & Janson, M. A. (1994).  Understanding qualitative data: A framework of text analysis methods, Journal of Management Information Systems, 11(2), 137–155.
Reading 8: Spiggle, S. (1994).  Analysis and interpretation of qualitative data in consumer research, Journal of Consumer Research, 21(3), 491–503.
Reading 9: Elliott, V. (2018). Thinking about the coding process in qualitative data analysis. The Qualitative Report, 23(11), 2850–2861. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2018.3560

Module 7 - Mixed Methods and Case Studies

Reading 10: Jick, T. D. (1979). Mixing qualitative and quantitative methods: Triangulation in action. Administrative Science Quarterly, 24(4), 602–611.
Reading 11: Eisenhardt, K. M. and Graebner, M. E. (2007).  Theory building from cases: Opportunities and challenges. Academy of Management Journal, 50(1), 25–32.
Reading 12: 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.
Reading 13: Gioia, D. (2021). A systematic methodology for doing qualitative research. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 57(1), 20–29.

Module 8 - Trustworthiness and Ethics

Reading 14: Flick, U. (1992). Triangulation revisited: Strategy of validation or alternative? Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 22(2), 175–197.
Reading 15: Brinkmann, S., & Kvale, S. (2005). Confronting the ethics of qualitative research. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 18(2), 157–181.
Reading 16: Cloutier, C., & Ravasi, D. (2021). Using tables to enhance trustworthiness in qualitative research. Strategic Organization, 19(1), 113–133.

Module 9 - Defending Your Proposal and Preparing Your Final Report

Reading 17: Pratt, M. G. (2009). From the editors: For the lack of a boilerplate: Tips on writing up (and reviewing) qualitative research. Academy of Management Journal, 52(5), 856–862.
Reading 18: Ashford, S. J. (2013). Having scholarly impact: The art of hitting academic home runs. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 12(4), 623–633.

Module 10 - Reflection and Critique

There are no readings in this module.

Ontological and Epistemological approaches to Qualitative Data

Ethnography

Reading 19: Van Maanen, J. (2011). Ethnography as work: Some rules of engagement. Journal of Management Studies, 48(1), 218–234.
Reading 20: Watson, T. J. (2011). Ethnography, reality, and truth: The vital need for studies of ‘how things work’ in organizations and management. Journal of Management Studies, 48(1), 202–217.
Reading 21: Golden-Biddle, K. & Locke, K. (1993).  Appealing work:  An investigation of how ethnographic texts convince, Organizational Science, 4(4), 595–616.
Reading 22: Leigh, T. W., Peters, C., & Shelton, J. (2006). The consumer quest for authenticity: The multiplicity of meanings within the MG subculture of consumption. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 34(4), 481–493

Action Research

Reading 23: Cassell, C., & Johnson, P. (2006). Action research: Explaining the diversity. Human Relations, 59(6), 783–814. 
Reading 24: Chiasson, M., Germonprez, M., & Mathiassen, L. (2009). Pluralist action research: A review of the information systems literature. Information Systems Journal, 19(1), 31–54.
Reading 25: Yorks, L., Beechler, S., & Ciporen, R. (2007). Enhancing the impact of an open-enrollment executive program through assessment. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 6(3), 310–320.  
Reading 26: Erro-Garcés, A., & Alfaro-Tanco, J. A. (2020). Action Research as a Meta-Methodology in the Management Field. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406920917489

Textual Analysis

Reading 27: Feldman, M. S., Sködberg, K., Brown, R., & Homer, D. (2004). Making sense of stories: A rhetorical approach to narrative analysis. Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, 14(2), 147–170.
Reading 28: Alvesson, M., & Karreman, D. (2000). Varieties of discourse: On the study of organizations through discourse analysis. Human Relations, 53(9), 1125–1149.
Reading 29: Suddaby, R., & Greenwood, R. (2005). Rhetorical strategies of legitimacy. Administrative science quarterly, 50(1), 35–67.

Critical Research

Reading 30: Myers, M. D., & Klein, H. K. (2011). A set of principles for conducting critical research in information systems. MIS Quarterly, 35(1), 17–36. 
Reading 31: van Dijk, T. A. (1993). Principles of critical discourse analysis. Discourse and Society, 4(2), 249–283.
Reading 32: Calás, M. B., & Smircich, L. (1991). Voicing Seduction to Silence Leadership. Organization Studies, 12(4), 567–601. https://doi.org/10.1177/017084069101200406
Reading 33: Zulfiqar, G., & Prasad, A. (2021). Challenging social inequality in the Global South: Class, privilege, and consciousness-raising through critical management education. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 20(2), 156-181.

Phenomenology & Hermeneutics

Reading 34: Prasad, A. (2002). The contest over meaning: Hermeneutics as an interpretive methodology for understanding texts. Organizational Research Methods, 5(1), 12–33.
Reading 35: Gill, M. J. (2014). The possibilities of phenomenology for organizational research. Organizational research methods, 17(2), 118–137.
Reading 36: Willems, T. (2018). Seeing and sensing the railways: A phenomenological view on practice-based learning. Management Learning, 49(1), 23–39. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507617725188

Indigenous Research Methods

Reading 37: Colbourne, R., Moroz, P., Hall, C., Lendsay, K., & Anderson, R. B. (2020). Indigenous works and two eyed seeing: mapping the case for indigenous-led research. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 15(1), 68-86
Reading 38: Kovach, M. (2009). Indigenous and qualitative inquiry: A round dance. In Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations, and contexts, 23-38.
Reading 39: Kovach, M. (2010). Conversation method in Indigenous research. First peoples child & family review, 5(1), 40-48.