The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods – eBook

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods provides a state-of–the-art overview of qualitative research methods in the business and management field.

The Handbook celebrates the diversity of the field by drawing from a wide range of traditions and by bringing together a number of leading international researchers engaged in studying a variety of topics through multiple qualitative methods. The chapters address the philosophical underpinnings of particular approaches to research, contemporary illustrations, references, and practical guidelines for their use.  The 2 volumes therefore provide a useful resource for Ph.D. students and early career researchers interested in developing and expanding their knowledge and practice of qualitative research. In covering established and emerging methods, it also provides an invaluable source of information for faculty teaching qualitative research methods.
The contents of the Handbook are arranged into two volumes covering seven key themes:

Volume 1: History and Tradition

Part 1: Influential Traditions: underpinning qualitative research: positivism, pragmatism, constructionism, interpretivism, poststructuralism, critical, hermeneutics, postcolonialism, critical realism, grounded theory, mixed methods, feminist and indigenous approaches.

Part 2: Research Designs: ethnography, action research, field research, case studies, process and practice methodologies.

Part 3: The Researcher: reflexivity, ethics, positionality, writing from the body, gender and intersectionality, and achieving critical distance.

Part 4: Challenges: access and departure, choosing participants, research design, writing for different audiences, ethics in international research, research across boundaries, digital ethics, and publishing qualitative research.

Volume 2: Methods and Challenges

Part 1: Contemporary methods: interviews, autoethnography, rhetoric, archival analysis, stories and narratives, historical, discourse analysis, sociomateriality, fiction, metaphors, dramaturgy, group methods, diary, shadowing and thematic analysis.

Part 2: Visual methods: photographs, video, web images, drawing, semiotics and symbols, collages, documentaries.

Part 3: Methodological developments: aesthetics and smell, sewing quilts, netnography, ethnomusicality, fuzzy set comparative analysis, software, ANTI-history, emotion, and pattern matching.