Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 8 Issue 1

Untold stories of the field and beyond: narrating the chaos

Paul F. Donnelly, Yiannis Gabriel, Banu Özkazanç‐Pan

The Guest Editors’ intent with this special issue is to tell tales of the field and beyond, but all with the serious end of rendering visible the largely invisible. This paper…

Awkward encounters and ethnography

Juliette Koning, Can‐Seng Ooi

Researchers rarely present accounts of their awkward encounters in ethnographies. Awkwardness, however, does matter and affects the ethnographic accounts we write and our…

A researcher's tale: how doing conflict research shapes research about conflict

Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen

The purpose of this paper is to display and critically reflect upon how field experiences in the research process interacted with the author's subjectivity and shaped her…

Stories from the lived and living fieldwork process

Courtney E. Cole

The purpose of this paper is to provide a more expansive recounting of the process of fieldwork, taking place over a number of years in diverse locations, in order to show how…

It's hard to tell how research feels: using fiction to enhance academic research and writing

Helen Kara

This paper aims to explore the scope of fiction writing in academic research as a way of studying “messier” aspects of the process, such as emotion.

From bricolage to thickness: making the most of the messiness of research narratives

François Lambotte, Dominique Meunier

The research process is commonly viewed as a succession of linear, structured and planned practices that exclude informal and unplanned practices, engaging with the unexpected or…