Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 15 Issue 3

Shadow organizing and imitation: new foci for research

Nick Hopwood, Karen Jensen

Shadow organizing refers to the emergence of parallel arrangements that sit alongside and imitate mainstream or conventional ways of organizing. It can be a response to challenges…

The ambiguities of money-making: Indie video game developers and the norm of creative integrity

Alexander Styhre, Björn Remneland-Wikhamn

Indie developers are part of the creative fringe of the video game industry, fashioning an identity for themselves as a community committed to the development of video games as a…

The dynamics of business ecosystem identity: An ethnographic study on an Indian microenterprise clusters

Debadutta Kumar Panda

The purpose of this paper is to examine how business ecosystems evolve, what is the identity of business ecosystem and is the ecosystem identity static or dynamics. To understand…

From a new workplace to a new way of working: legitimizing organizational change

Grégory Jemine, Christophe Dubois, François Pichault

Several studies have recently documented projects of organizational transformation and modernization which, commonly clustered under the umbrella term “New Ways of Working”…

The development of trust in virtual leader–follower relationships

Steven M. Norman, James Avey, Milan Larson, Larry Hughes

Responding to calls to examine trust beyond the scope of the objectivist paradigm, the purpose of this paper is to qualitatively examine the trust relationship between leaders and…

Exploring presenteeism among hospital physicians through the perspective of job crafting

Fay Giæver, Lise Tevik Løvseth

The purpose of this paper is to seek a deeper understanding of presenteeism by utilising the perspective of job crafting to explore how a selected group of physicians make sense…

Becoming academics: embracing and resisting changing writing practice

Saija Katila, Mikko Laamanen, Maarit Laihonen, Rebecca Lund, Susan Meriläinen, Jenny Rinkinen, Janne Tienari

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how global and local changes in higher education impact upon writing practices through which doctoral students become academics. The study…

Precarious work, harassment, and the erosion of employment standards

J. Adam Perry, Adriana Berlingieri, Kiran Mirchandani

The purpose of this paper is to examine experiences of harassment within the context of precarious work, which in Canada is shaped by subnational legislative frameworks.

Unsociable speech: Critical discourses on cyber incivility from inside the non-profit sector in Canada

Kristin S. Williams

Cyber incivility is a form of unsociable speech and a common daily workplace stressor. The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of cyber incivility on non-profit leaders…

The emergence of connected discretion: Social media and discretionary awareness in the Swedish police

Bertil Rolandsson

Previous studies repeatedly claim that social media challenge and even disrupt organizational boundaries conditioning discretionary work. The purpose of this paper is to…

Author(ing) from post-colonial context: challenges and jugaad fixes

Nimruji Prasad Jammulamadaka

The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the challenges authors from post-colonial contexts face in writing and doing research in management and organisation studies.

Teasing out fieldwork challenges with e-mail methods in cross-border research

Coral Ingley, Smita Singh, Alanah Malkani

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to reflect on the value of e-mails for recruiting and interviewing in a specific context in qualitative research, and second, to…