Composing Qualitative Research / Edition 2

by Karen Golden-Biddle, Karen Locke

Overview

The Second Edition of Composing Qualitative Research: Crafting Theoretical Points from Qualitative Data offers useful strategies for addressing the writing issues that researchers face when shepherding a manuscript from invention to publication. Authors Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke use real-world examples drawn from a variety of disciplines and publications to demonstrate styles, concepts, challenges, and potential outcomes from writing qualitative research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412905619
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/03/2006
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Karen Golden-Biddle is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University School of Management. She currently serves as Senior Associate Dean, with responsibility for faculty, research and curricular innovation at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In her research, Karen studies organizational and system change, and has published more than 50 articles and two books: Composing Qualitative Research (Golden-Biddle and Locke, 2007) and Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations (Golden-Biddle and Dutton, 2012). Her most recent article (2013), "How to change your organization without blowing it up," is published in Sloan Management Review.

Karen is the recipient of a number of teaching awards and was the 2003 recipient of the Robert Mc Donald Award for the Advancement of Research Methodology from the Academy of Management. She received her BA degree from Denison University and MBA and Ph D degrees from Case Western Reserve University. Karen studies organizational and system transformation, and is especially interested in highly professionalized settings such as healthcare and universities with socially significant missions.

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"For professionals and students in the social sciences and management, Golden-Biddle and Locke explain how to transform field work experience of qualitative research into journal articles. "

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"For professionals and students in the social sciences and management, Golden-Biddle and Locke explain how to transform field work experience of qualitative research into journal articles."

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"For professionals and students in the social sciences and management, Golden-Biddle and Locke explain how to transform field work experience of qualitative research into journal articles. "— Sci Tech

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