Qualitative Methodology for Business Research

(1) Myers, M.D. 2013. Qualitative Research in Business & Management, 2nd Edition. London: Sage. (There is a first edition, 2009, that would also be fine – but I’ve used the second edition chapters here.)

Brown, A., Ainsworth, S. & Grant, D. 2012. The Rhetoric of Institutional Change. Organization Studies, 33(3): 297-321

Creswell, J.W. 2013. Qualitative inquiry & research design. Thousand Oaks: Sage

Gephart, R. P. 1978. Status degradation and organizational succession: An ethnomethodological approach. Administrative Science Quarterly, 28: 553-581

Gephart, R. P. 2004. Qualitative research and the Academy of Management Journal. Academy of Management Journal, 47(4): 454-462

Gioia, D. A., Corley, K. G., & Hamilton, A. L. 2012. Seeking qualitative rigor in inductive research: Notes on the Gioia methodology. Organizational Research Methods, 16(1): 15-31

Hodder, I. 2000. The interpretation of documents and material culture. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd edition: 703-716. Thousand Oaks: Sage

Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R. & Le, J.K. 2014. Producing persuasive findings: Demystifying ethnographic textwork in strategy and organization research. Strategic Organization, 12(4): 274-287

Kellogg, K. 2009. Operating room: Relational spaces and microinstitutional change in surgery. American Journal of Sociology, 115: 657-711

Langley, A., & Abdallah, C. 2011. Templates and turns in qualitative studies of strategy and management. Research Methodology in Strategy and Management, 6: 201

Langley, A., Smallman, C., Tsoukas, H., & Van de Ven, A. 2013. Process studies of change in organization and management. Academy of Management Journal, 56(1): 1-13

Mantere, S. & Ketokivi, M. 2013. Reasoning in Organization Science. Academy of Management Review, vol. 38 no. 1 70-89

Miles, M. B., & Huberman, A. M. 1994. Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook. Sage

Myers, M. 2013. Qualitative Research in Business & Management, 2nd edition. London: Sage

Pratt, M. G. 2008. Fitting oval pegs into round holes tensions in evaluating and publishing qualitative research in top-tier North American Journals. Organizational Research Methods, 11(3): 481-509

Patton, M. Q. (2003). Qualitative evaluation and research methods (3rd Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Reay, T. 2014. Publishing Qualitative Research. Family Business Review, 27: 95-102

Reay, T., Goodrick, E., Waldorff, S. & Casebeer, A. forthcoming. Getting Leopards to Change their Spots: Co-Creating a New Professional Role Identity. Academy of Management Journal

Smets, M., Morris, T., & Greenwood, R. 2012. From Practice to Field: A Multilevel Model of Practice Driven Institutional Change. Academy of Management Journal, 55: 877–904

Smith, W. 2014. Dynamic Decision Making: A Model of Senior Leaders Managing Strategic Paradoxes. Academy of Management Journal, vol. 57 no. 6 1592-1623

Stake, R. E. 1995. The art of case study research. Sage

Stake, R. E. 2000. Case studies. In N. K. Denzin, & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd edition: 435-454. Thousand Oaks: Sage

Stake, R. E. 2006. Multiple case study analysis. New York: The Guilford Press

Suddaby, R. 2006. From the editors: What grounded theory is not. Academy of management journal, 49(4), 633-642

Yin, R. K. 2009. Case study research: Design and methods (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

The core “textbook” for the class is: David Silverman, 2006. Interpreting Qualitative Data (3rd Edition). Thousand Oaks, CA., Sage

Perlow, L. Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices. Ithaca, N.Y.; ILR Press. (156 pages)

The following Sage Publications qualitative research methods (“blue series”) monographs will also be used in the course:

Gephart, R.P. 1988. Ethnostatistics. #12. McCracken, G. 1988. The Long Interview. #13

Morgan, D. 1993. Focus groups as qualitative research. #16

Rodriques, N.M. and A.L. Ryave, 2002. Systematic Self Observation, #49

Denzin, N.K and Y.L. Lincoln. 2005. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (3nd Edition). Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage

Glaser, B. and A. Strauss, 1967. The Discovery of Grounded Theory. Chicago: Aldine Press. (P. 1-115 lays out the key argument)

Lo, Ch. 6 Proposal Due