Conducting Qualitative Research

This workshop will expose you to a combination of readings, discussions, and hands-on exercises aimed at cementing your understand ing of, and ability to conduct qualitative research - especially gathering, analyzing, and theorizing different types of qualitative data. Ahead of the workshop, you will be required to complete several pre-readings, which will provide us a common language for conversation and reflection. In addition, during the workshop, besides engaging in discussion, you will conduct observations, interviews, and analyze data that  you will gather.  Should you be working  on, or planning  for a qualitative  project, you will also have the opportunity  to present it and to gain feedback  from both the instructor as well as other  workshop participants. By the end of this three-day  workshop, you should feel more comfortable  with conducting,  and building theory from qualitative research. I look forward to meeting you, and working with you to refine your knowledge and skills as a qualitative researcher!

Tentative Schedule Day 1: (3-7pm)

Introduction, Research Presentation & Discussion

3:00-4:30pm

• Research Presentation 5:00-7:00pm
• Workshop Overview and Introductions

Day 2: (8:30-6:00pm)

Data Collection & Analysis: Interviews Articles in Focus:

• Ibarra, H. 1999. Provisional selves: Experimenting with image and identity in professional adaptation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(4), 764-791.
• Rouse, E. D. 2016. Beginning's end: How founders psychologically disengage from their organizations. Academy of Management Journal, 59(5), 1605-1629.
  • Anteby, M. 2010. Markets, morals, and practices of trade: Jurisdictional disputes in the US commerce in cadavers. Administrative Science Quarterly, 55(4), 606-638.
    • Crosina, E., & Pratt, M. G. In Press. Toward a Model of Organizational Mourning: The Case of Former Lehman Brothers Bankers. Academy of Management Journal.

In Class Plan for Day 2:

• Discussion of Selected Articles
  • Tales from the Field: From a Passion Project to AMJ, Crosina & Pratt 2019
  • Exercise: Gathering & Analyzing Interview Data
  • Exercise: Transcript Cross-Coding
    • Students' Research Presentations & Workshop

Day 3: (7:30-11:30am)

Data Collection & Analysis: (Ethnographic) Observations Articles in Focus:

• Geertz. 1972. "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" in The Interpretation of Cultures, pp. 412- 454.
• Pratt, M. G. 2000. The good, the bad, and the ambivalent: Managing identification among Amway distributors . Administrative Science Quarterly, 45(3), 456-493.
  • Fine, G. A. 1996. Justifying work: Occupational rhetorics as resources in restaurant kitchens. Administrative Science Quarterly, 90-115.

echky, B. A. 2006. Gaffers, gofers, and grips: Role-based coordination in temporary organizations. Organization Science, 17(1),