Guidelines for Qualitative Research in Organization Studies: Controversy and Possibilities

• Autor(a) principal: Cavalcanti, Maria Fernanda Rios
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Administração (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://raep.emnuvens.com.br/raep/article/view/522
• topic: Research; Methodology; Qualitative Methods; Criteria for Evaluation; Pesquisa; Metodologia; Metodologia Qualitativa; Diretrizes Metodológicas

The aim of the present article is to tackle the controversy of establishing guidelines for qualitative research in Organization and Management Theory (OMT) and to present a summary of suggestions on how to conduct good qualitative research given by methodologists on top-tier international publications. In order to do so, the article discusses: general guidelines for qualitative research; how to achieve coherence and transparency in a qualitative empirical study; the meaning and importance of the concept of reflexivity; and, finally how to establish a theoretical contribution and transferability of findings in such context. The work presents a valuable contribution because such guidelines, concepts, and approaches can be adopted by students and researchers when conducting a qualitative research proposal, and by periodic reviewers to evaluate the quality of existing empirical studies.