Includes index. Symon, G., & Cassell, C. (2012). Qualitative organizational research: Core methods and current challenges. Los Angeles: SAGE.

Introduction: the context of qualitative organizational research -- Part I: The issues and challenges of qualitative inquiry in organizational research -- Philosophies underpinning qualitative research -- Choosing research participants -- Researching your own organization -- Reflexivity in qualitative research -- Ethical research practice -- Facilitating the interaction between theory and data in qualitative research using CAQDAS -- Combining qualitative methods -- Longitudinal research and analysis -- Doing qualitative business and management research in international and intercultural contexts -- Writing up as a legitimacy seeking process: alternative publishing recipes for qualitative research -- Assessing qualitative research -- Teaching qualitative research in the business school -- Part II: Core methods of qualitative inquiry in organizational research -- Interviews -- Focus groups -- Participatory visual methods -- Participant observation -- Autoethnography in organizational research: two tales of two cities -- Practising organizational ethnography -- Case studies in organizational research -- Action research -- Using documents in organizational research -- Grounded theory: a theory building approach -- Doing template analysis -- Conversation analysis in management research -- Discourse analysis and discursive research -- Narrative analysis

"This comprehensive text brings together in one volume the range of methods available for undertaking qualitative data collection and analysis. Qualitative Organizational Research contains 27 chapters, each focusing on a specific technique. The first part of the volume looks at contemporary uses of qualitative methods in organizational research, outlining each method and illustrating practical application through case studies. The second part of the volume goes on to consider the broader issues in qualitative methods, examining key contemporary debates in each area as well as providing practical advice for those undertaking organizational research. Written by Gillian Symon and Catherine Casse internationally renowned experts in qualitative research methods, this text is an accessible and essential resource for students and researchers in the areas of organization studies, management research and organizational psychology."