Karen Golden-Biddle & Karen Locke 
Composing Qualitative Research [PDF ebook] 

Organized around an extended metaphor of ’story, ‚ this book provides both theoretical and practical guidance for students and researchers who need to transform their qualitative data into a coherent manuscript (essay, dissertation, article for publication, professional writing, etc.). Each chapter covers a different aspect of creating a story: finding the intended audience, crafting and developing the storyline, characterizing the storyteller, and rewriting the story for publication. Composing Qualitative Research is highly recommended for professionals and students across the social sciences and management.




Key Features:

•  Now expanded, Chapter 5 takes an extensive look at manuscripts prior to publication.


• The text offers useful strategies for addressing the writing issues that researchers face when shepherding a manuscript from invention to publication.


• The book includes real-world examples drawn from many disciplines and publications to demonstrate styles, concepts, challenges, and potential outcomes from writing qualitative research.


• The work features an expanded list of additional reference materials (online guides included).  

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Writing about Writing

Writing our Fieldwork

Focus on “Story”

Organization of Chapters

The Style and Practice of Our Academic Writing

The Predominant Style of Academic Writing: Unadorned and Disembodied

Experiencing the Practice of Academic Writing

The Style and Practice of Academic Writing: Interested and Persuasive Discourse

Our Writing Task

Crafting a Theorized Storyline

Establishing Theorized Storylines

Developing the Theorized Storyline

Compelling Beginnings

Novel Use of Methodology

Data-Theory Coupling

Storylines with Field and Theory Complications

Characterizing the Storyteller

Storyteller in the Guise of Institutional and Human Scientist

Institutional and Human Storyteller in Relationship to the Studied

Institutional and Human Portrayals as Technically Competent Storyteller

Institutional and Human Scientist as Field Knowledgeable Storyteller

Re-Writing the Story

Re-writing the Manuscript Prior to Journal Review

Re-writing the Manuscript During the Journal Review Process

Re-writing the Articulated Theorized Storylines

Reflections on the Re-Written Manuscripts

Conclusion

Concluding Comments

Appendix: Articles Used as Illustrations

References

Index

About the Authors

Über den Autor

Karen Locke is W. Brooks George Professor of Business Administration at the College of William and Mary’s school of business, where she is a member of the management area. She joined the faculty there in 1989 after earning her Ph.D in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University. Her work focuses on developing a sociology of knowledge in organizational studies with an emphasis on the production of scientific texts and on the use of qualitative research for the investigation of organizational phenomena. She has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Studies in Organization, Culture and Society, and has authored Grounded Theory In Management Research. Her current work continues her interest in the processes of qualitative researching and focuses on exploring and explicating their creative and imaginative dimensions. Karen also serves as an associate action editor for Organizational Research Methods and as a member of the editorial board of Academy of Management Journal.