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Benchmarking Good Practice in Qualitative Management Research

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Project Output: Papers, Reports, Conferences and Related Publications.

Working Papers

Buehring, A., Symon, G., Cassell, C. and Johnson, P. How do we judge qualitative management research? Exploring quality criteria-in-use.

Cassell, C., Bishop, V., Symon, G., Johnson, P. and Buehring, A. Enhancing the quality of management research through training: The case of qualitative research.

Cassell, C., Symon, G., Johnson, P. and Buehring, A. Defining and benchmarking quality in qualitative management research.

Johnson, P., Buehring, A., Cassell, C. and Symon, G. Evaluating qualitative management research: Towards a contingent criteriology.

Symon, G., Buehring, A., Johnson, P. and Cassell, C. Positioning qualitative research as resistance in the contemporary academic labour process.


Reports

Cassell, C., Buehring, A., Symon, G., Johnson, P. and Bishop, V. Qualitative Management Research: A Thematic Analysis of Interviews with Stakeholders in the Field. (In preparation) [more...] [Download PDF 380KB]

Conferences

Cassell, C., Bishop, V., Symon, G., Johnson, P. and Buehring, A. Enhancing the quality of management research through training: The case of qualitative research. British Academy of Management Annual Conference, Oxford, UK, September 2005.

Symon, G., Buehring, A., Johnson, P. and Cassell, C. The contemporary academic labour process, the institutionalisation of research practices and qualitative research. Critical Management Studies Conference, Cambridge, UK, July, 2005.

Cassell, C., Symon, G., Buehring, A. and Johnson, P. Can we ever benchmark quality?
Criteria used to evaluate the quality of qualitative research within the business and management field. First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Illinois and Urbana-Champaign, USA, May, 2005.

Symon, G., Cassell, C., Buehring, A. and Johnson, P. Assessing quality in qualitative management research, The State of the Art of Qualitative Social Research in Europe, Berlin, September, 2004.

Cassell, C., Buehring, A., Symon, G. and Johnson, P. Defining quality in qualitative management research: the editor’s view, British Academy of Management, St Andrews, September, 2004.

Buehring, A., Symon, G., Cassell, C., and Johnson, P. How do we judge qualitative management research?: Exploring quality criteria-in-use. AOM Research Methods Division, “Crossing Frontiers in Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods”. Lyon, France, March, 2004.

Buehring, A., Cassell, C., Johnson, P., and Symon, G. Benchmarking good practice in qualitative management research. British Academy of Management Annual Conference Harrogate. Leeds, UK, September, 2003.


Related Publications

Books
Johnson, P. and Clark, M. (2005 – in press) Business and Management Research Methods, 6 Volume Sage Major Work, Sage: London.
Cassell, C. and Symon, G. (2004) (eds). Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research. London: Sage Publications
Cassell, C. and Symon, G. (1994) (eds) Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research: A Practical Guide. London: Sage Publications

Gill, J., Johnson, P. (1997) Research Methods for Managers. Second Edition. London: Paul Chapman Publishing

Gill, J., Johnson, P. (1991) Research Methods for Managers. London: Paul Chapman Publishing.

Johnson, P., Duberley, J. (2000). Understanding Management Research: An Epistemological Introduction. London: Sage Publications

Symon, G. and Cassell, C. (eds) (1998). Qualitative Methods and Data Analysis in Organizational Research: A Practical Guide. London: Sage Publications.


New Journal

Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal. Editors: Catherine Cassell and Gillian Symon
Publishers: Emerald Publishing.
To be launched in 2006.

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Journal Special Issues

Cassell, C., Buehring, A., Johnson, P. and Symon, G. (Guest Editors). Qualitative methods in management research. Special Issue of Management Decision. [Management Decision Homepage]


Cassell, C. and Symon, G. (eds.) Beyond positivism and statistics: Neglected approaches to understanding the experience of work . Special Issue of Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Call for Submissions [more..].


Journal Articles

Cassell, C.M. (2004) Creating the role of the interviewer, Qualitative Research. In Press.

Johnson, P.D. and Cassell, C.M. (2001) Epistemology and work psychology: New agendas. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 74,125-143

Symon, G., Cassell, C.M. and Dickson, R. (2000) Expanding our research and practice through innovative research methods. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 9 (4), 1-6

Johnson, P.D. and Duberley, J. (1993) Reflexivity and Management Research, Journal of Management Studies, 40(6), 279-1303.

Book Chapters

Cassell, C.M. and Symon, G. (2004) Qualitative methods in organizational research. In C.Humphrey and B. Lee (eds). The real life guide to accounting research. Elsevier.