Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 7 Issue 3

Knowing, learning and acting in health care organizations and services : Challenges and opportunities for qualitative research

Claudio Bosio, Guendalina Graffigna, Giuseppe Scaratti

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the value of post‐modern psychosocial approaches to studying knowledge and practice construction in health care organizations and settings…

Managing participatory action research in a health‐care service experiencing conflicts

Caterina Gozzoli, Daniela Frascaroli

The purpose of the paper is to explore why it was considered useful and how it was possible to conduct a participatory action research (PAR) in a health‐care service experiencing…

A multi‐method approach for looking inside healthcare practices

Mara Gorli, Cesare Kaneklin, Giuseppe Scaratti

The purpose of this paper is to explore a specific multi‐method approach with which to detect and analyze professional practices in order to support organizational reflection and…

Discovering healthcare professional‐practice networks: The added value of qualitative SNA

Simon Bishop, Justin Waring

The aim of this paper is to examine the benefits of undertaking mixed methods social network analysis (SNA) to investigate patterns of interpersonal relationships in healthcare…

Online exchanges among cancer patients and caregivers: Constructing and sharing health knowledge about time

Guendalina Graffigna, Chiara Libreri, Claudio Bosio

The meanings attributed to the quality of a person's illness experience result from important processes of co‐construction not only between healthcare professionals and patients…

Autopilot? A reflexive review of the piloting process in qualitative e‐research

Katrina Pritchard, Rebecca Whiting

The purpose of this paper is to examine an oft‐neglected aspect of qualitative research practice – conducting a pilot – using the innovative approach of “e‐research” to generate…

Book review

Thomas Cuckston