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In this chapter, we operationalize the interpretivist-constructivist Gioia approach to qualitative research by integrating it with RQDA and demonstrating how to do so.
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For example, in a study to understand how citizens of Sicily, Italy resisted paying protection money to mafia organizations, Vaccaro and Palazzo (2015) asked a ‘how’ question: How can change initiatives succeed in social contexts that are dominated by organized crime? In another study, Gioia et al. (2010) explored the processes involved in forming an organizational identity using two ‘how’ questions: How do members of a nascent organization develop a collective understanding of “Who are we as an organization?” and How does a newly created organization develop a sense of itself as a social actor in its field or industry?”
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Some researchers ask three to five research questions in a qualitative manuscript; this can distract from the paper’s focus and positioning and make the paper overly long and lead to diffuse answers.
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One way to quickly assess whether a topic deserves another qualitative study is to do a simple Web of Science, Scopus or Google Scholar check to see how many articles have been published on a particular topic area and to read the abstracts of the retrieved articles.
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Some scholars employ the quantitative interview style. They interview informants using a structured questionnaire and give ticks to the questionnaire. This type of interview is usually not associated with qualitative research. Such interview is like conducting a survey, in which the data are ‘thin’ and ‘abstract’ rather than thick and concrete.
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Chandra, Y., Shang, L. (2019). How to Conduct Caqdas-Based Qualitative Research. In: Qualitative Research Using R: A Systematic Approach. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3170-1_3
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