Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 15 Issue 2

Cyberbullying in a boundary blurred working life: Distortion of the private and professional face on social media

Rebecka Cowen Forssell

The purpose of this paper is to explore what characterizes cyberbullying when it is performed in digital space and in an increasingly boundary blurred working life context.

When does the owl of Minerva spread its wings? Shadow organizing and modes of inquiry

Anders Christian Buch

The purpose of this paper is to critique the metaphor of “shadow organizing” in relation to researchers’ allegedly ontological commitment to processual metaphysics.

Identity, agency and institutional work in higher education: a qualitative meta-synthesis

Chloé Adler, Carole Lalonde

The purpose of this paper is to synthesize a body of research addressing changes in academic identity brought on by neo-liberal university management while proposing a new…

Working within the shadow: what do we do with “not-yet” data?

Angelo Benozzo, Silvia Gherardi

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities opened up by those messy, unclear and indeterminate data in research situations that may be described as being in the…

Between biography and autobiography: exploring the official history in organizations

Deby Babis

The official history of an organization is usually found on the organization’s website and in brochures. The purpose of this paper is to explore the narrative of an institution’s…

The actor-network theory as a method in the analysis of Samarco disaster in Brazil

Camilla Zanon Bussular, Cecília Gerhardt Burtet, Cláudia Simone Antonello

The actor-network theory (ANT) has been understood as a method, as a way of engaging in the social world and also transform it. The purpose of this paper is to show the ANT…

Placing emotion and fantasy at the heart of the researcher-researched relationship: The contribution of psychosocial studies

Yiannis Gabriel

The purpose of this paper is to introduce psychosocial research methodology as a method that makes use of the emotions of researcher and researched and goes well-beyond empathetic…

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