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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

11. What Should Be Avoided During Qualitative Research?

Authors : Beata Glinka, Przemysław Hensel

Published in: Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter is focused on typical mistakes made in qualitative research projects. Its aim is to show traps and mistakes researchers face in their work, in order to help them understand and avoid possible pitfalls, and design and execute projects more carefully. The first part of the text includes explanation of the nature of typical research mistakes. We describe it against the background of different ontological assumptions, paradigms, and perspectives applied by researchers. The sources and areas of methodological criticism are also analyzed. We point out how some of the criticism is connected with different sets of assumptions adopted by researchers. The following part of the chapter concentrates on descriptions of typical mistakes made on different stages of qualitative research projects: project design, data collection, data analysis, and text writing. Some tips on how to avoid mistakes are offered. The text includes practical examples from different research projects showing how and why mistakes are made.

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Footnotes
1
This term has nothing to do with culture wars understood as a conflict between representatives of different national cultures or civilizations (cf. Huntington 2007).
 
2
There are, arguably, cases of purposeful manipulation, but we assume that this is a matter of elementary ethics.
 
3
Although Agar refers in particular to ethnographers, most of the remarks seem to apply also to other groups of researchers relying on qualitative methods.
 
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Metadata
Title
What Should Be Avoided During Qualitative Research?
Authors
Beata Glinka
Przemysław Hensel
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-65441-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-65442-3

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65442-3_11