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Something borrowed, something new : challenges in using qualitative methods to study under-researched international business phenomena
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Reuber, Rebecca A., Alkhaled, Sophie, Barnard, Helena, Couper, Carole and Sasaki, Innan (2022) Something borrowed, something new : challenges in using qualitative methods to study under-researched international business phenomena. Journal of International Business Studies, 53 . pp. 2147-2166. doi:10.1057/s41267-022-00555-1 ISSN 0047-2506.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-022-00555-1
Abstract
This article responds to calls for IB researchers to study a greater diversity of international business (IB) phenomena in order to generate theoretical insights about empirical settings that are under-represented in the scholarly IB literature. While this objective is consistent with the strengths of qualitative research methods, novel empirical settings are not always well aligned with methods that have been developed in better-researched and thus more familiar settings. In this article, we explore three methods-related challenges of studying under-researched empirical settings, in terms of gathering and analyzing qualitative data. The challenges are: managing researcher identities, navigating unfamiliar data gathering conditions, and theorizing the uniqueness of novel empirical settings. These challenges are integral to the process of contextualization, which involves linking observations from an empirical setting to the categories of the theoretical research context. We provide a toolkit of recommended practices to manage them, by drawing on published accounts of research by others, and on our own experiences in the field.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | International business enterprises, Social responsibility of business | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of International Business Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0047-2506 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 53 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 2147-2166 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1057/s41267-022-00555-1 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 June 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 September 2022 | ||||||||
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