Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: Volume 8 Issue 3

“Tuning” the body of the classical musician : An embodied approach to vocational anticipatory socialization

Elena Gabor

– The purpose of this paper was to investigate the role of the body in the vocational anticipatory socialization (VAS) processes of classical musicians.

Dialogic listening: toward an embodied understanding of how to “go on” during fieldwork

Jenny Helin

In recognizing that we have different modes of listening, just as there are different ways of talking, the purpose of this paper is to explore how a greater awareness of listening…

Longing to belong

Tim Butcher

The purpose of this paper is to examine distinctions between embeddedness and belonging in ethnographic fieldwork to make sense of a researcher's identity position in the field…

The feel of experience: phenomenological ideas for organizational research

Leah Tomkins, Virginia Eatough

The purpose of this paper is to look at how phenomenology can be used to explore the meaning and experience of organizational life. It argues that phenomenology provides more than…

The kaleidic world of entrepreneurs: Developing and grounding a metaphor for creative imagination

Todd H. Chiles, Sara R.S.T.A. Elias, Tal G. Zarankin, Denise M. Vultee

Austrian economics figures centrally in organizational entrepreneurship research. However, researchers have focussed almost entirely on the Austrian school's “gales of creative…

Dramaturgy in the internet era

Lawrence T. Corrigan, Louis Beaubien

The purpose of this paper is to develop and apply Goffman's dramaturgical perspective to the study of organizations in the context of their internet presence(s), or as Goffman…

Embodiment, imagination and meaning

Ann L. Cunliffe and Karen Locke