Elite informants (ie, those in the upper echelon of organizations) are a key data source for
building and testing theories in management research. We offer best‐practice …

Step-by-step advice for constructing a qualitative project from beginning to end, covering
both foundational theory and real-world application Qualitative Research Methods …

Establishing contacts and gaining permission to conduct ethnographic or qualitative
research can be time-consuming and stressful processes. Gaining access can be especially …

What can we learn about women's organizational challenges by talking to men about
gender roles and work-life? We attend to this question through an interview study with male …

This article explores the methodological problems encountered as I attempted to locate and
recruit 40 male participants for the research I am currently undertaking on the experience of …

Existing work on elite interviewing methods falls short in two ways: first, there is no
systematic comparison between the practices of interviewing different elite groups; second …

Interviewing corporate elites has received limited attention in the methodological literature.
Such elites are considered highly difficult to gain access to and, if involved, are believed to …

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This article analyses the contradictions that arise when the widely accepted ethical
principles we use as social researchers are applied in the context of researching the …

Presidents, provosts, deans, and other upper-level administrators in higher education fit
common definitions of “elites” in the context of qualitative research. Scholarship on methods …