...Laura Dean Purpose Calls for reflexivity and insider voice are now well established within qualitative organisational research. However, such calls often presume conditions in which disclosure is safe and epistemically rewarded. This article examines how reflexivity can function as a site...

... strategically ambiguous metaphors, polysemous statements and a collage of artists, characters, songs and postmodern satire. Findings Readers construct ideas in tandem with the performers and author. This experiential performance invites reflexivity and passion, offering new possibilities with every reading...

... to construct or avoid and outline the methodological purposes and substantive research outcomes which hinge on the impressions that participants form. Practical implications Our paper has three practical implications. It encourages researchers to enhance reflexivity by writing more transparently about RIM...

... experience of vicarious trauma (VT), offering a reflexive and theoretical response to the affective demands of field work in emotionally charged contexts. Design/methodology/approach Using a reflexive autoethnographic approach, the study draws on two in-depth interviews and the researcher’s own emotional...

... Management and Organizational Studies to address the emotional strain experienced by both participants and researchers in qualitative research. Second, the article demonstrates the value of reflexive autoethnography in exploring personal assumptions, positionalities and emotional responses. Design...

.../value By analysing documents as the unit of study, this paper shifts debates from adversarial critique to constructive reform. We argue for a dialogic model of review that retains safeguards while recognising researchers as reflexive ethical agents. Our contribution is twofold: extending QROM’s debates...

... and colleague, remains an active presence in our academic work even after her passing. Design/methodology/approach Using collaborative autoethnography and vertical ethnography, we engage in reflexive storytelling to document our lived experience of writing and researching within a space where absence...

... First, this paper traces the history of the concept of the terra firma of interaction and its usage until now. Second, drawing on ethnographic writings on complicit reflexivity and on the two first authors’ doctoral research experiences, this paper identifies current limitations...

... employs an autoethnographic approach grounded in sensemaking and reflexivity, drawing on the personal life experiences of a researcher who collected data for his dissertation involving informal entrepreneurs (IEs). Findings This research reveals that gaining access is not a straightforward process...

... on the researchers’ experiences and data from a larger research project including 63 semi-structured interviews, 7 focus groups, documents and field notes. Adopting a culturally sensitive and self-reflexive lens, we reflect on the researchers’ experiences in the Brazilian sociocultural context from an interpretive...

... light on the argument raised in the study. Then, narratives, together with self and critical reflexivity were used to write reflective narratives, which served as data for this paper. Next, the authors used the thematic analysis method to analyze the reflective narratives. Finally, the authors drew from...

... ethnographic research. The seven sins are used as a metaphor that can lead to more reflexive research for educational and explanatory purposes. Ultimately, the authors encourage organizational scholars to conduct ethnographic research. Findings The metaphors of the Christian seven sins represent issues...

...Wafa Said Mosleh; Henry Larsen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present researcher's reflexive writing about emergent events in research collaborations as a way of responding to the process-figurational sociology of Norbert Elias in the practice of organizational ethnography. Design...

...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...

... were used. A critical reflexivity position, with respect to being in the field, was adopted, melding in the Universe, the Sun and the Earth as objects that the author can talk and interact with. This reflexivity was captured within the letter to the Universe. Findings Three outcomes are discussed...

... for time and space, that allows the research, and the researcher, “time to breathe”. This reflexivity allows for methodological development and refinement, and ultimately rigorous and participative research, which also honours the participants. The authors argue that although this approach may not align...

...Chris Mason; John Simmons Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a theoretical framework of whistleblowing that gives due recognition to the emotional and reflexive processes that underpin it. Modes of anger are integrated into the model based on a reading of Geddes and Callister (2007...

... concept of limbo to help illustrate the implications of this intersection. Design/methodology/approach A reflexive and personal confessional account is provided of the author’s “living in” the liminal transition of the identity states from full-time PhD student to full-time early career researcher...

...Amon Barros; Adéle de Toledo Carneiro; Sergio Wanderley Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the role of reflexivity in relation to archives and narratives. Design/methodology/approach The authors problematize the concept of “archive,” by engaging with debates in philosophy...

... is a narrative from a conference the authors attended where the authors, as researchers, found themselves on slippery and emotionally charged ground. Using a critical, reflexive approach informed by post-structuralism, the ambition was to deconstruct gaps between rhetoric and practice and critique normative...