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1c. Discourse and Thematic Analysis – Part 1 : Coding, Recursive Abstraction
(13:00 - 16:00)

2.Interpretive Research: Narrative Interviews and Narrative Methods

*Assignment: conversation starter

3. Etnography and Fieldwork

*Assignment: conversation starter

Thomas Frandsen

22^nd October 2018 (morning) 9:00-12:00

Introduction to the course and Qualitative Research Methods

The session introduces the course, the faculty members and the students, as well as provides a general introduction to qualitative research.

Readings:

Cunliffe, A. L. (2010). Crafting qualitative research: Morgan and Smircich 30 years on. Organizational Research Methods.

Optional Readings:

Gergen, K. J., Josselson, R., & Freeman, M. (2015). The promises of qualitative inquiry. American Psychologist, 70(1), 1.

Gioia, D. A., Corley, K. G., & Hamilton, A. L. (2013). Seeking qualitative rigor in inductive research notes on the Gioia methodology. Organizational Research Methods, 16(1), 15-31.

Eisenhardt, K. M., Graebner, M. E., & Sonenshein, S. (2016). Grand Challenges and Inductive Methods: Rigor without Rigor Mortis. Academy of Management Journal, 59(4), 1113-1123.

Alvesson, M. &: Kärreman, D. (2007). Creating mystery: empirical matters in theory development. Academy of Management Review, 32(4), 1265-1281.

Alvesson, M. & Sandberg, J. (2011). Generating research questions through problematization. Academy of Management Review, 37(2), 247-271.

22^nd October 2018 (afternoon)  13:00-16:00

Discourse and Thematic Analysis   – Part 1: Coding, recursive abstraction – Torkil Clemmensen

Discourse and Thematic Analysis part 1 and part 2 enables the participants to understand and apply digital tools to plan, carry out and report the qualitative parts of different research designs. The course offers participants experience with contemporary qualitative and mixed research designs, which often make use of both quantitative and qualitative data. Examples include experiments (verbal protocols), surveys (open questions), qualitative research interviews, literature reviews (qualitative content analysis), observational studies (video analysis) and more. This will help facilitate the participant’s qualitative data analysis by presenting and discussing some of the questions that researchers ask other researchers when they look for help and advice in how to plan and execute their qualitative data analysis, including technical issues of how to format data for analysis, and philosophical discussions of the meaning of reliability and validity in the context of qualitative data analysis.

Part 1 offers participants practical experience in analyzing qualitative data from a research project in a multidisciplinary context. Best cases and worst cases of digital qualitative analysis will be presented. Participants are expected to be willing to use data from their own research to analyze. Depending on the level of experience with digital analysis of qualitative data among the participants, different kind of qualitative analysis software will be demonstrated.

Critical Class Prerequisites:

1)                         Bring your own computer to class

2)                         Download and familiarize yourself through online tutorials and self-experimentation with at least three different software applications for qualitative analysis. Atlas.ti, Nvivo and Maxqda have downloadable demo versions from their respective websites. A full package of Nvivo is available for free via the CBS software library. Consider also other software that is suitable for qualitative data analysis, e.g., MS Excel, Word, or Onenote. Please bear in mind that there will be no traditional demonstrations of any software during the course, however there will be abundant opportunities for hands-on experience connected with reflection in class. Therefore, you are required to familiarize yourself as much as you can with different kind of software application for qualitative analysis prior to the class. 

3)                         Bring your own data. This can be 3-4 transcripts of interviews, field notes, online pictures, audio, or anything else that you want to analyze. You will be asked to enter your data in the qualitative analysis software of your choice, and work with this during part 1 and 2.

Readings:

Creswell, J. W. (2003, 2017). Research design - qualitative, quantitative and mixed method approaches. London: SAGE. (in particular chapter 1 and chapter 11 (CH10 in 2017 5th edition)). See https://www.vitalsource.com/en-uk/referral?term=9781506386690

Richards, T., & Richards, L. (1992). Database organization for qualitative-analysis - the nudist(tm) system. Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence, 611, 116-133

Thomas Muhr, (1991). ATLAS/ti - A Prototype for the Support of Text Interpretation, Qualitative Sociology, 14(4).

King, N., (2012). Doing template analysis. In: Symon, G, and Cassell, C. (eds.). Qualitative Organizational Research: Core Methods and Current Challenges: 426-450. Sage, London.

Clemmensen, T. (2015). Notes on Digital Qualitative Analysis (unpublished).

23rd October 2018                   

Interpretive Research: Narrative Interviews and Narrative Methods – Anna Linda Musacchio Adorisio

The session introduces interpretive narrative research and addresses narrative as a way to investigate how actors involved in business practices create meaning. It deals with the actors´ subjective experience of business practices and the contingent historical and social contexts in which they are generated. On a methodological level, collecting and analyzing stories could imply different research designs and methods, which can range from ethnographic research methods for spontaneous stories, textual analysis for already produced stories or interviews methods for eliciting stories with interviewees. The seminar will provide participants with both a broad orientation to the theoretical and practical issues involved in the use of narrative approaches and an opportunity to apply these approaches to their own research using smaller breakout groups and discussions. The course provides an invitation for students to discuss their own research from various narrative and altenarrative perspectives and an opportunity to gain hands-on experience on the craft of doing narrative research.

Readings:

Boje, D.M. (1991). The storytelling organization: a study of story performance in an office supply firm. Administrative Science Quarterly, 36 (1), 106-126.

Boje, D.M. (2001). Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research. London: Sage. (introduction)

Musacchio Adorisio, A.L. (2009) Storytelling in Organizations. London: Palgrave. (chapter 1-2-3-4)

Søderberg, A. -M. (2014). Narrative Interviewing and Narrative Analysis in a Study of a Cross-border Merger. In Bell, E. &Willmott, H. (Eds.) Qualitative Research in Business and Management. Volume1: Classical and Contemporary Studies. Sage 2014, pp. 401-420.

Vaara, E. Tienari, J. (2011) On the Narrative Construction of Multinational Corporations: An Antenarrative Analysis of Legitimation and Resistance in a Cross-Border Merger. Organization Science, 22 (2), 370-390.

24th October 2018

Ethnography and Fieldwork – Daniel Souleles

A hard-won truth in the social sciences is that there are some questions we can only answer by seeing people in context. However, glossed as “fieldwork”, “ethnographic work,” or, “deep hanging out,” or perhaps even categorized as “participant observation,” showing up and staying with both people and a research question in an open-ended way leads to a host of methodological, ethical, and artistic conundrums that vex fieldworkers at any level of expertise. This session aims to give doctoral students a starting point for planning and carrying out social-scientific fieldwork.

Given all that, this session will:

·         define ethnographic fieldwork;

·         discuss the types of research questions that can and cannot be answered via fieldwork;

·         identify methodological and ethical concerns that come with planning fieldwork;

·         review a number of different note-taking, and thereby data-gathering strategies;

·         workshop the analysis of field-notes; and

·         review and critique several examples of ethnographic fieldwork

Readings:

Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1922. “Introduction: The Subject, Method and Scope of This Inquiry.” In Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Pp. 1-25. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press.

Spradley, James P. 1980. “Doing Participant Observation,” “Making an Ethnographic Record.” In Participant Observation. Pp. 53-84. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston.

Emerson, Robert, Rachel I Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw. 2011. “2 In the Field: Participating, Observing, and Jotting Notes,” and “3 Writing Fieldnotes I: At the Desk, Creating Scenes on a Page.” In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition. Pp. 21-89. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Bourgois, Philippe and Jeff Schonberg. 2009. “8 Everyday Addicts.” In Righteous Dopefiend. Pp. 241-271. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press

Coleman, Gabriella. 2014. “7 Revenge of the Lulz.” In Hacker Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous. Pp. 237-277. London: Verso.

Souleles, Daniel. 2017. “Don’t mix Paxil, Viagra, and Xanax: What financiers’ jokes say about inequality.” Economic Anthropology 4:107-119.

25th October 2018

Case Research Methodology - Thomas Frandsen & & Jawwad Raja

Case research methods can allow the researcher to study complex organizational phenomenon within the context in which they are practiced. Hence case research holds the potential to enable the researcher to come closer to practice. However, case research requires methodological rigor in order to enable the researcher to develop insights leading to theoretical contributions. This session aims to give doctoral students a starting point for planning and carrying out case research. The session will provide an overview of different approaches for case research and cover central decisions on research design for the case researcher. This includes choices of case selection, negotiating access, preparing for and collecting data, analyzing and representing case data, reporting case research as well as ethical and legal considerations related to case research.

Readings:

Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative research in psychology, 3(2), 77-101.

Dubois, A., & Gadde, L. E. (2002). Systematic combining: an abductive approach to case research. Journal of Business Research, 55(7), 553-560.

Edmondson, A. C., & McManus, S. E. (2007). Methodological fit in management field research. Academy of Management Review, 32(4), 1155-1179. 

Flyvbjerg, B. (2006). Five misunderstandings about case-study research. Qualitative inquiry, 12(2), 219-245. 

Gehman, J., Glaser, V. L., Eisenhardt, K. M., Gioia, D., Langley, A., & Corley, K. G. (in press). Finding theory–method fit: A comparison of three qualitative approaches to theory building. Journal of Management Inquiry.

Supplementary Video link to paper: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/1056492617706029

Langley, A., & Abdallah, C. (2011). Templates and turns in qualitative studies of strategy and management. In D. Bergh & D. Ketchen (Eds.), Building methodological bridges: Research methodology in strategy and management (pp. 201-235). Bingley, UK: Emerald.

Siggelkow, N. (2007). Persuasion with case studies. Academy of Management Journal, 50(1), 20-24.

Yin, R. K. (2017). Case study research and applications: Design and methods. Sage publications. (BOOK)

26th October 2018

Discourse and Thematic Analysis – Part 2: Abstraction and Communication of Findings – Torkil Clemmensen

Discourse and Thematic Analysis part 2 raises participants’ awareness of the quality of qualitative data analysis, such as the transparency of the research design, and the adherence to established rules for presenting qualitative data.

Part 2 offers participants practical experience in presenting qualitative data from a research project in a multidisciplinary context. Best cases and worst cases of digital qualitative analysis will be presented. Participants are expected to be willing to use data from their own research to present. In addition, we will have a “write notes for your method section” exercise.

Readings:

Dahler-Larsen, P. (2008). Displaying Qualitative Data. University Press of Southern Denmark, 2008. 170 pages.

Clemmensen, T. (2015). Notes on Digital Qualitative Analysis (unpublished).