... Positionality Business school Doing research Ethic Ironically, as part of a recreational reading group, I’m currently reading Anna Tsing’s (2015) “The Mushroom at the End of the World”. Matsutake, those wild mushrooms that only proliferate in human-disturbed forests (forests cut for their wood...

...’ positionality and reflexivity while opening up new paths for understanding how organizational phenomena unfold as relational fields in processes of communication. Originality/value This paper questions and reevaluates the role of the researcher in CCO scholarship and, in doing so, offers new insights...

... research is therefore (self-)reflexivity which involves the careful interpretation and reflection of a phenomenon and its context (Alvesson and Sköldberg, 2017), as well as the researcher’s role, personality and sense-making processes, known as positionality (Creswell and Poth, 2017). Especially...

...Maira Babri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present how my positionality as a researcher aligned with the works of Latour in terms of methodological inspirations and allowed me to develop a critical vantage point and simultaneously adopt a heterogeneously rather than hierarchically...

... of this paper is to share the experience with other researchers and practitioners for them to recognise the common challenges associated with gaining access to research sites and the significance of critical reflection and reflexivity on how a researcher’s positionality affects knowledge production. The paper...