Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 16 Issue 1

A systematic qualitative case study: questions, data collection, NVivo analysis and saturation

Md. Kausar Alam

The study aims to explore the case study method with the formation of questions, data collection procedures and analysis, followed by how and on which position the saturation is…

Ambiguous discursive practices in health-care project plans: a keyword-assisted critical discourse analysis of the term “patient”

Nina Lunkka, Pirjo Lukkarila, Sanna Laulainen, Marjo Suhonen

The purpose of the paper is to investigate ambiguous language use in health-care project plans in a manner that accounts for the wider, institutional, public health-care context.

An institutional perspective on workplace incivility: case studies from academia

Devi Akella, Niveen Eid

This research study looks at issues such as why does incivility occur, dynamics responsible for incivility with an emphasis on causes stimulated by the general context and its…

Organizational memorialization: spatial history and legitimation as chiasms

François-Xavier de Vaujany, Emmanuelle Vaast, Stewart R. Clegg, Jeremy Aroles

The purpose of this paper is to understand how historical materialities might play a contemporary role in legitimation processes through the memorialization of history and its…

Deflating power imbalance through personal identity enhancement

Shreya Mishra, Manosi Chaudhuri, Ajoy Kumar Dey

The purpose of the paper is to identify how the intersection of power, context, subjectivity and directionality makes it possible for the targets of workplace bullying to deflate…

Critical realism and attribution theory in qualitative research

Rami Al-Sharif

The aim of this paper is to develop an integrative model that explains how incorporating the two epistemological positions of critical realism and attribution theory can help…

The role of storytelling in a nonhostile takeover

Joseph Cleary

Why did a powerful department of hospital doctors support a merger with a rival hospital that they knew would ruin their beloved workplace?

Health promotion in care organizations as material-discursive practices

Beata Segercrantz, Annamari Tuori, Charlotta Niemistö

Drawing on a performative ontology, this article extends the literature on health promotion in organizations by exploring how health promotion is performed in care work. The focus…

Decent work in the Economy for the Common Good reports: a documentary analysis

Susana Alves Pereira, Nuno Rebelo dos Santos, Leonor Pais, Salvatore Zappalà

This paper aims to describe and characterise the actions carried out by Italian organisations participating in the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) movement and to analyse these…

Fictionalizing dialogue: interpretative phenomenological analysis in organizational research

Ankit Agarwal, Peter John Sandiford

This paper proposes a dialogical approach for analyzing and presenting Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) data in organizational research.

Motives in creating an LGBTQ inclusive work environment: a case study

Brent S. Opall

The purpose of this inquiry is to examine why companies create LGBTQ-inclusive work environments and how these firms advance LGBTQ-inclusiveness through CSR practices and address…

A spectacle of otherness: an autoethnography of a conference presentation

Liela A. Jamjoom

This article is an autoethnography that describes an emotional journey of writing and; presenting a conference paper. While it is a personal story being told, it is a story that…