Includes bibliographical references and index.

The context of qualitative organizational research / Catherine Cassell and Gillian Symon -- Philosophies underpinning qualitative research / Joanne Duberley, Phil Johnson and Catherine Cassell -- Choosing research participants / Mark Saunders Researching your own organization / Suzanne Tietze -- Reflexivity in qualitative research / Kathryn Haynes -- Ethical research practice / Robin Holt -- Facilitating the interaction between theory and data in qualitative research using CAQDAS / Rudolf R. Sinkovics and Eva A. Alfoldi --Combining qualitative methods / Katrina Pritchard -- Longitudinal research and analysis / Ann Langley and Inger Stensaker -- Doing qualitative business and management research in international and intercultural contexts / Laurie Cohen and M.N. Ravishankar Writing up as a legitimacy-seeking process : Alternative publishing recipes for qualitative research / Joep Cornelissen, Hanna Gajewska-de Mattos, Rebecca Piekkari and Catherine Welch -- Assessing qualitative research / Gillian Symon and Catherine Cassell -- Teaching qualitative research in the business school / Mark Learmonth and Mike Humphreys -- Interviews / Mats Alvesson and Karen Ashcraft -- Focus groups / Binna Kandola -- Participatory visual methods / Russ Vince and Sam Warren -- Participant observation / Matthew J. Brannan and Teresa Oultram -- Autoethnography in organizational research : Two tales of two cities / Michael Humphreys and Mark Learmonth -- Practising organizational ethnography / Dvora Yanow, Sierk Ybema and Merlijn van Hulst Case studies in organizational research / David A. Buchanan -- Action research / Julie Wolfram Cox -- Using documents in organizational research / Bill Lee -- Grounded Theory : A theory-building approach / Graeme J.J. Keneally -- Doing template analysis / Nigel King -- Conversation analysis in management research / David Greatbatch and Timothy Clark -- Discourse analysis and discursive research / Cliff Oswick -- Narrative Analysis / Sally Maitlis.