...Coral Ingley; Smita Singh; Alanah Malkani Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to reflect on the value of e-mails for recruiting and interviewing in a specific context in qualitative research, and second, to reflect on the benefits of the reflexive practice in sharing the research...

... to financial reports. This study therefore interviews 13 rural accountants regarding their opinions on the usefulness of financial information they provide to farmers, and what types of financial information could aid farm management. Findings – Accountants generally agree that the present financial...

... that, as a result of particular group socialisation, has been hidden, unspoken of or marginalised. Design/methodology/approach The research design combines 40 in‐depth verbal interviews with male butchers, with the use of photoelicitation and photovoice, in order to increase participant control of data...

... in favour of a medium that has generally been second‐rated in qualitative research. It aims at establishing telephone interviews as an equally viable option to other established methods of qualitative data collection. Design/methodology/approach This paper is informed by the authors’ experience of using...

...C. Rose‐Anderssen; J.S. Baldwin; K. Ridgway Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of communicative interaction on meaning construction in three focus group interviews. Design/methodology/approach Within the framework of cultural‐historical activity theory, Bakhtin's...

...Paul Tosey; Jane Mathison Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore a contemporary European development in research into first person accounts of experience, called psychophenomenology, that offers enhancements to phenomenological interviewing. It is a form of guided introspection that seeks...

...Peter Svensson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities of letting ideas from ethnomethodology inform a radicalisation (i.e. going to the roots) of interviewing in management and organization studies. Design/methodology/approach The argument draws upon insights from...

...Caroline Gatrell Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the long‐term effects of qualitative interviews on respondents. The paper offers a reflexive account of the author's research practices with regard to “safeguarding” research participants and researcher accountability. Design...

...Nancy Harding Purpose “Identity” is of major interest in organisation studies, but as identity is concerned very much with subjectivity it is difficult to explore it empirically. The purpose of this paper is to offer a methodology for analysing interview transcripts designed to discover...

... (usually, as expressed at interview). Design/methodology/approach This is a methodological paper that uses a published work to illustrate its arguments. It explores research on the meaning and significance of politically and culturally sensitive emergent change. Findings The paper finds...

...Mark Learmonth Purpose The paper invites us to reconsider the processes at work in the conduct of qualitative interviews, especially in the context of management studies; it emphasises, in particular, the paradoxes that arise from the inescapable interdependency between interviewer and interviewee...

...Alan Bryman; Catherine Cassell Purpose The aim of this paper is to highlight some of the issues that emerge in the researcher interview process. It is argued that researcher interviewing is becoming an increasingly used practice yet the researcher interview is under‐critiqued in the literature...