TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate and reflect on mutual relationships between the researcher’s life experiences, encounters and personal learning, and how they can influence the research process of designing and writing research publications as well as their dialectical influences on the emergence and evolution of researcher identities in these processes.Design/methodology/approach This research is inspired by auto-ethnography. While the descriptions and analyses of the selected moments from the pre-research period are based on retrospective reflection and memory, the descriptions and analyses of the moments from the research period are in addition to the memories, based on notes and diary entries about my encounters with various people, documents, events and literature.Findings The paper shows that researchers’ attempts to understand the Other through studies of certain phenomena are a production between them and their past, their experiences and people encountered, as well as between them and the research literature they use. In these encounters and processes, the researcher’s multiple identities emerge and evolve with significance for how the research is socially produced.Originality/value The paper takes a broader perspective than usually seen in studies of researcher identities and is based on a researcher’s life history rather than only on a specific field-situation. As such, it has a longitudinal character, and it implies a broader, multilevel area of reflection, emphasizing dialectical relationships between the researcher, the context(s) and people involved in these, as well as the subject(s) of research, which are characterized by mutuality and continuality.
VL  - 14
IS  - 2
SN  - 1746-5648
DO  - 10.1108/QROM-09-2017-1566
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/QROM-09-2017-1566
AU  - Omanović Vedran
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - The emergence and evolution of researcher identities: Experiences, encounters, learning and dialectics
T2  - Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 119
EP  - 138
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -