Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 5 Issue 3

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

Exploring the use of entity‐relationship diagramming as a technique to support grounded theory inquiry

Malcolm Brady, John Loonam

The purpose of this paper is to compare fundamental concepts from the grounded theory approach to social science research and concepts from entity‐relationship diagramming, a…

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The role of path dependency in a hospital merger

Elsa Solstad, Inger Johanne Pettersen

The purpose of this paper is to explore how change processes are dependent on historical events, geographical conditions, strong stakeholders and social norms developed over…

Rhetorical criticism as a method for examining cultural pressures on organizational form

Craig Lee Engstrom

The purpose of this paper is to provide a rationale and step‐by‐step description of how to use rhetorical criticism as a method for accounting for organizational isomorphism in…

“Adjustment” of the independent expatriate – a case study of Doug

Steve McKenna

The purpose of this paper is to explore the idea of expatriate adjustment through naturally occurring data. Specifically, through an investigation of three e‐mails sent to the…

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Cover of Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management

ISSN:

1746-5648

Online date, start – end:

2006

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr. Albert Mills
  • Prof Jean Helms Mills