Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 16 Issue 2

Urban development project goals and the role of professional ignorance: ambiguous policy objectives and their consequences

Alexander Styhre, Sara Brorström

Drawing on the literature on professional ignorance, here defined in affirmative terms as the capacity to act regardless of the incompleteness of available information in…

Resilience and stress management amongst corporate security managers: a hybrid approach to thematic analysis

Sami Rahman, Moira Cachia

The purpose of this study is to examine the experience of stress by national corporate security managers in the United Kingdom and how they manage it.

The seven deadly sins and ethnography

Caio Coelho, Carlos Eduardo de Lima

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a general review of the ethnographic method. It uses metaphors to read several pieces of ethnographic research and discuss the different…

Trapped in limbo – Academics' identity negotiation in conditions of perpetual liminality

Ingo Winkler, Mette Lund Kristensen

This paper aims to investigate the experiences of permanent liminality of academics and the associated multidimensional processes of identity negotiation.

Exploring cultural values in conflict management: a qualitative study of university heads of departments

Babatunde Akanji, Chima Mordi, Hakeem Ajonbadi, Olatunji David Adekoya

In seeking to understand the impact of culture on conflict management (CM), extant organisational management research has, for the most part, confined itself to using the…

“Practicing care in qualitative organizational research: moral responsibility and legitimacy in a study of immigration management”

Ida Okkonen, Tuomo Takala, Emma Bell

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the reciprocal relations between the caregiving imparted by immigration centre managers and the role of the researcher in…

Organizational links and sensemaking in a medical work cooperative system

Natália Peroni Pellin, Alex Weymer, Leila Andressa Dissenha, Márcio André Leal Bauer

The aim of this article was to analyze how the presence of the elements that constitute organizational links are related to sensemaking in a cooperative system of medical work.

To discard or to ado(a)pt? Looking at qualitative research templates through the lens of organizational routines

Lakshmi Balachandran Nair

Many management scholars view templates as rigid rulebooks suffocating qualitative research. This viewpoint article recommends that, instead, templates should be viewed through…