Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 17 Issue 3

Identity work by a young petite female academic home comer: quest for social power in masculine settings

Nilupulee Liyanagamage, Mario Fernando

How do females with multiple sources of identity deal with intersectional identity tensions and perceived lack of access to social power? The study focuses on how social…

Transforming employee resistance into organizational learning at a higher education institution in Palestine

Devi Akella, Grace Khoury

This paper reconceptualizes resistance as a stimulant of organizational learning from a change agent's perspective. Adopting a social constructivism lens, the paper argues that…

Leading with two eyes: leadership failures and possibilities in the management of a pulp mill’s wicked problem

Mairi N. McKinnon, Brad S. Long

The motivation for this paper comes from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation’s (TRC) Calls to Action, and in particular, the call for more meaningful consultation and respectful…

Trailblazers in green business: unconventional practices and motivation within a chamber of commerce business network

Nancy Hanson-Rasmussen, Brent S. Opall

The motivation and practices of business network members are explored with the purpose of determining what leads businesses to fully share and learn sustainable practice from each…

Conforming to and resisting imposed identities – an autoethnography on academic motherhood

Isabella Krysa, Marke Kivijärvi

This research attempts to make sense of the experiences of two academic women who become mothers.

Researching sensitive topics when the participants are stigmatized, the culture is value-laden and the researcher is an insider-outsider

Arosha S. Adikaram, Subashini Weerakotuwa, Dilusha Madushanka Liyanage

This paper aims to revisit the debate on the insider-outsider positionality of the researcher in conducting qualitative research by highlighting the challenges of researching…