– The purpose of this paper is to outline certain currents in the assessment of qualitative research management and organizational research and briefly position this journal in relation to these developments.
– The argument draws upon contemporary debates about criteriology and its relation to underlying knowledge-constituting philosophical commitments that may be sometimes unnoticed.
– The need for a more permissive, pluralistic and reflexive approach to research evaluation that accepts difference and heterogeneity in qualitative research.
– The need for greater reflexivity on the part of research anyone evaluating research.
– The paper is of value to those who are engaged in various aspects of qualitative research evaluation either in terms of being evaluated or in terms of undertaking the evaluations.
