Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 11 Issue 3

Self-initiated expatriation: changing the ontological and methodological box

Steve McKenna, Julia Richardson

The purpose of this paper is to offer an ontological and methodological alternative to the functionalist paradigm which currently dominates study of the self-initiated expatriate…

Using personal narratives to explore multiple identities in organisational contexts

Isidora Kourti

The purpose of this paper is to explore and incorporate personal narratives as a new methodological tool into the qualitative research of complex organisational issues such as…

Mixed or merged? Integration as the real challenge for mixed methods

Pat Bazeley

Giampietro Gobo called for new methods that combine qualitative and quantitative approaches in a single instrument, suggesting this was the next challenge facing social research…

A comment to Gobo: the next challenge – from mixed to merged methods

Chantal Hervieux

The purpose of this paper is to further the discussion on points made by Giampietro Gobo, provide additional information on the place of qualitative research in management, and…

Why “merged” methods realize a higher integration than “mixed” methods: a reply

Giampietro Gobo

After the initial life (which coincides with the origins of social research in the 1850s, and lasts until 1940s), mixed methods revive at the beginning of 1970s. However, this…

Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies

Clare Mumford