Relational wellbeing is an emergent construct grounded in the interpretivist tradition in social science. It approaches people as subjects, and aims to understand the ways they see the world in as near to their own terms as possible. This contrasts with mainstream approaches to subjective...

Der RatSWD1 will optimale Bedingungen für die Genese von und den Zugang der Wissenschaft zu Forschungsdaten herstellen. Er befürwortet grundsätzlich die Archivierung und die Bereitstellung qualitativer Daten für Sekundäranalysen. Der RatSWD erkennt an, dass die Frage der Möglichkeit, der...

Qualitative research typically involves techniques such as focus groups, in-depth interviews (IDIs), ethnography, and metaphor elicitation. Rather than being a substitute for quantitative research, qualitative research - when conducted properly - can be a useful and necessary complement that...

To illustrate how Bayesian logic underpins qualitative research, we provide an application to Fairfield's (2015) work on tax policy change in Latin America. Fairfield (2013) elaborated a methodological appendix that we believe is the first published account that explicitly applies...

This paper aims to provide a research agenda for qualitative studies in the field of strategic management (SM) in the Baltic area. A total of 167 strategic management-related articles in this area between 2000 and 2013 were found. The content within title, abstract and authors' keywords were...

PurposeThis paper presents empirical evidence that focuses on the use of covert participant observation as a method of data collection and considers the ethical nature of this method as a means to create knowledge that leads to direct management action. This ethical debate centres on issues such...

"[…] to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." (Bergson, 1911: 7). Whilst these words were originally referring to "a conscious being" (Bergson, 2011: 7), they can also be applied to organisations. They are facing new threats and...

Solar hydrogen generation is one of the new topics in the field of renewable energy. Recently, the rate of investigation about hydrogen generation is growing dramatically in many countries. Many studies have been done about hydrogen generation from natural resources such as wind, solar, coal...