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EDITED BY
MALGORZATA CIESIELSKA
DARIUSZ JEMIELNIAK
QUALITATIVE
METHODOLOGIES
IN ORGANIZATION
STUDIES
Volume I: Theories and
New Approaches
Qualitative Methodologies in Organization
Studies
Qualitative
Methodologies in
Organization Studies
Volume I: Theories and
New Approaches
Martyna Śliwa
vii
Preface
discusses an action research strategy that combines the expertise and facil-
itation of a professional social researcher with the knowledge, energy and
commitments of local stakeholders in an organization. In Chap. 6, Tony
Watson discusses organization ethnography as a research method, a
descriptive study of people, a theory-informed and theory-informing
analysis of (intensive) fieldwork, and a humanities-style written account
and analysis of events in which the researcher-writer has participated. In
Chap. 7, David Boje and Nazanin Tourani introduce us to materiality
storytelling research and how to utilize it to enrich our understanding of
various disciplines.
Yiannis Gabriel discusses the importance of interpretation, reflexivity,
and imagination in qualitative research in Chap. 8. This is followed by
Angela Mazzetti’s discussion on emotions and the exploration of some of
the emotional challenges of developing rapport with research participants
in Chap. 9. In Chap. 10, Daniela Rudloff raises questions around the
accessibility of research and discusses how to lower barriers to participa-
tion. Finally, Sylwia Ciuk and Dominika Latusek cover a number of ethi-
cal questions and ethical dilemmas that can arise at different stages of the
research process (Chap. 11).
3 Grounded Theory 27
Przemysław Hensel and Beata Glinka
4 Visual Anthropology 49
Slawomir Magala
5 Action Research 75
Davydd J. Greenwood
xi
xii Contents
Index 215
Notes on Contributors
xiii
xiv Notes on Contributors
xvii
1
Qualitative Research in Organization
Studies
Dariusz Jemielniak and Malgorzata Ciesielska
Qualitative organization studies have never had it easy. Even though they
date back to the beginnings of social studies as a whole, and Bronisław
Malinowski and Elton Mayo are considered to be one of the founders of
anthropology and management and organization studies, the academic
status of qualitative inquiry in management has been unequal for quite a
while. In the 1960s, when academia became obsessed with cybernetics
and the system approach, typically paired with quantitative studies, the
perception of qualitative studies was that they are clearly inferior.
Dariusz Jemielniak’s work on the publication was possible thanks to a research grant from the
Polish National Science Center (no. UMO-2012/05/E/HS4/01498).
D. Jemielniak (*)
Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland
M. Ciesielska
Teesside University Business School, Middlesbrough, UK
Fortunately, it soon turned out that there are questions that quantita-
tive studies, in spite of their undisputable usefulness, cannot address well.
As the sensitivity to new cultures has grown, so has the interest in study-
ing different cultures, including the organizational ones, and qualitative
studies have naturally returned to grace. Currently, we often use qualita-
tive approaches not only in regular organization and occupational studies
(Ciesielska 2008; Ciesielska and Petersen 2013; Jemielniak 2002, 2005;
Konecki 1990), but also in the studies of knowledge-intensive environ-
ments (Bowden and Ciesielska 2016; Ciesielska and Petersen 2013;
Latusek-Jurczak and Prystupa 2014) as well as of virtual tribes and the
digital society (Jemielniak 2013, 2015; Przegalinska 2015). Qualitative
studies are even sometimes positioned as a meso-level model for doing
social science in general (Gaggiotti et al. 2016).
What makes qualitative studies “qualitative” though? For some people
the category of qualitative studies encompasses everything that cannot be
quantified. As such, they would have to include also simple literature
reviews or theoretical essays (Jemielniak and Aibar 2016; Jemielniak and
Greenwood 2015). They would also, by definition, have to cover all kinds
of poorly designed research reports that do not even make a serious
attempt at presenting their methodology. On the other side of the spec-
trum there are qualitative researchers for whom only a deep involvement
with the field and saturation of the material can satisfy the rigorous
requirements of a qualitative inquiry. As a result, labeling certain tools
and approaches as “qualitative” may be discipline-dependent. For
instance, some econometrists may consider open questions in a question-
naire as qualitative research, while for anthropologists they could be
intrinsically quantitative, and even a loosely structured interview (Whyte
and Whyte 1984) can be perceived as “not qualitative enough” to allow a
solid interpretation.
Things are further complicated by the fact that research methods are
only secondary to some more fundamental methodological and paradig-
matic choices. Methods are tools that can be used for different purposes:
just like with a hammer one can hit some nails, bring down walls, or
paint the walls—although, admittedly, the latter can be done much easier
and with better results with a brush. Especially in engaged scholarship
Qualitative Research in Organization Studies 3
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