Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore why executives participating in a top management team meeting avoid speaking up when they experience the goal as unclear or the discussion as wandering off track. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 21 executives (CEOs and level 2...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the new journal and outline the rationale and aims and objectives of Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal ( QROM ). Design/methodology/approach – The paper considers why there is a necessity for a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review some of the compositional and orientational shifts that have occurred in ethnography during the last 20 years. Design/methodology/approach – Within the paper the author produces a series of reflections based upon his own experiences of writing...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to highlight some of the issues that emerge in the researcher interview process. It is argued that researcher interviewing is becoming an increasingly used practice yet the researcher interview is under‐critiqued in the literature....

Purpose – To provide examples of qualitative research based on feminist epistemological assumptions. Such research re‐invents rather than recycles management theory, producing alternative understandings which speak to the demands of managing post‐corporate workplaces characterised by...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the problems of teaching qualitative research methods to large culturally‐mixed groups of postgraduate business school students. Design/methodology/approach – After a consideration of some current relevant pedagogical issues the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of undertaking research on both participants and researcher. Design/methodology/approach – Taking an auto/ethnographic approach, the paper provides a reflexive account of the impact of research on identity construction, especially...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of research which explores how the concept qualitative management research is variably constructed and defined by those who have a direct interest in, and influence upon, important aspects of qualitative management research....

Purpose – To explore the cases for and against the use of computer‐assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) in qualitative organisation and management research. Design/methodology/approach – Reflecting the debate inherent in the questions raised about the use of CAQDAS, a...