Symon, G, Cassell, C and Johnson, P (2018) Evaluative Practices in Qualitative Management Research: A Critical Review. International Journal of Management Reviews, 20 (1). pp. 134-154. ISSN 1460-8545
Abstract
This paper critically reviews commentaries on the evaluation and promotion of qualitative management research. The review identifies two disjunctures: between methodological prescriptions for epistemologically diverse criteria and management journal prescriptions for standardized criteria; and between the culturally dependent production of criteria and their positioning in editorials and commentaries as normative and objective. The authors’ critical social constructionist analysis surfaces underlying positivist assumptions and institutional processes in these commentaries, which they argue are producing (inappropriate) homogeneous evaluation criteria for qualitative research, marginalizing alternative perspectives, and disciplining individual qualitative researchers into particular normative practices. The authors argue that interventions to encourage more qualitative research need to focus as much on editorial, disciplinary and institutional practices as the practices of individual researchers, and they make recommendations for changes that may allow qualitative management research to develop in a more supportive context by recognizing philosophical diversity as legitimate.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 British Academy of Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Symon, G, Cassell, C and Johnson, P (2016) Evaluative practices in qualitative management research: a critical review. International Journal of Management Reviews; which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12120. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with the Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2016 10:36 |
Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2018 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/ijmr.12120 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102279 |