...Joel Rasmussen Purpose Organizational trust is often professed to be communication-based, yet organizational research rarely provides methodological frameworks exploring how orientations to trust are articulated in communication. This paper therefore aims to help unpack how positions on trust...

...Miriam Feuls; Mie Plotnikof; Iben Sandal Stjerne Purpose This paper stimulates methodological debates and advances the research agenda for qualitative research about time and temporality in organizing processes. It develops a framework for studying the temporal in organizing that contributes...

...Maria Hvid Dille; Mie Plotnikof Purpose While recent theoretical discussions around discourse–material relationality have facilitated important conceptual and analytical advancements within the broader field of CMS, less progress has been made methodologically with regard to innovating empirical...

...Aedan Alderson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address some of the implications for methodology and ethics that arise when researchers in Indigenous territories locate their research projects as taking place within Indigenous countries. Centering the argument that ethical research...

...Anders Christian Buch Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critique the metaphor of “shadow organizing” in relation to researchers’ allegedly ontological commitment to processual metaphysics. Design/methodology/approach The paper focuses on the association of “shadow organizing” with post...

... Gadamer and Ricoeur; and second, to share insights from the researcher’s experience of applying Gadamerian and Ricoeurian hermeneutics to an interpretive accounting research project. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on the extant literature and the researcher’s own experience using...

...Irene Ryan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share reflective insights on three key questions of concern to critical diversity scholars: what influences play a part in framing a research project and the research questions, what determines the chosen methodology and what knowledge...

...Joanne Duberley Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that in order to maintain the legitimacy of qualitative management research it is important to re-emphasise the link between epistemology and methodology and recognise that different knowledge-constituting assumptions can underpin...

..., which fail to engage with the epistemological issues surrounding research practice. Design/methodology/approach The paper critically evaluates the link between theories of knowledge and method through interrogation of focus groups as a method of knowledge production. Findings While the focus...

... to introduce the articles forming the special issue, as well as reviewing extant work that foregrounds the hidden stories and uncertainties of doing qualitative research. Design/methodology/approach The authors advance their arguments through a literature review approach, reflecting on the “state...

...Jane Davison; Christine McLean; Samantha Warren; Norah Campbell Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ways in which Derridean deconstruction can be used for image research. Design/methodology/approach Derridean concepts, mainly located in literary criticism, are adapted to image...