This paper reviews recent books supporting the development of using qualitative methods in interpretative research. Revolving around three major issues, i.e. increasing the level of rigour, using software packages and new methodological developments, the paper outlines the specific contributions of these books and lays out further needs for development. [PUB ABSTRACT]
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Reliability, validity, generalisability and objectivity are fundamental concerns for quantitative researchers. For qualitative research, however, the role of these dimensions is blurred. Some researchers argue that these dimensions are not applicable to qualitative research and a qualitative researcher's tool chest should be geared towards trustworthiness and encompass issues such as credibility, dependability, transferability and confirmability. * This paper advocates the use of formalised and software-based procedures for the analysis and interpretation of qualitative interview data. It is argued that International Business research, with a focus on international datasets, equivalence issues, multiple research environments and multiple researchers, will benefit from formalisation. The...
... In this study, we specifically focus our analysis on the electronics industry, which has been a majo...The Thai government also set up the Software Park Thailand to promote electronics start-up vent...Qualitative research could be useful in supplementing and refi...
This paper investigates directors' relationships with firms' managers, using lenses of resource dependence theory and resource based view. Because of different roles that board members perform in modern organisations we seek to find out what board-management relationships may provide a company with competitive advantage relative to other firms. The paper reports the results from a study conducted in six New Zealand companies. We used multiple respondents from the top management and board members in a variety of firms from different industries. Qualitative analysis of interview transcripts, and matching the qualitative results with secondary information on the companies, reveal several interesting patterns of relationship among top management and board members, as well as the value of th...
... by employing QSR NUD*IST computer software for qualitative data analysis (Qualitative Solutio...
... factors that drive nearshoring are qualitatively different than those that influence offshoring. . ...We also provide for a finer-grained analysis by differentiating among offshoring decisions invo... some services, such as engineering or software development, high-skilled workers (i.e., workers w...
In the following paper, the use of fuzzy models in qualitative rating systems is analyzed in detail. The author works in an Austrian finance institution. There are at the moment two rating systems in use. The main purpose of such a rating system is to analyze company ratios to calculate a rating score, which is a measure for the financial situation and rigidity of a company. The first one is a solely hard fact rating system based on the Quicktest by Kralicek. The second one uses self-organizing maps and neural networks to calculate a rating classification and also offers the possibility to dispose personal appraisal in the calculation process. The following work examines the application spectrum of fuzzy logic and fuzzy models in soft-fact rating systems. We show that the use of fuzzy m...
... the possibility to carry out a soft fact analysis and to dispose personal appraisal in the calculati...3. FuzzMe Software System. During a research co-operation with the Pa...
...Previous GAM studies are either qualitative in nature or provide limited empirical support for...A principal component analysis of all the items included in the study was perform...Encino: Multivariate Software, Inc. . Birkinshaw, J., Morrison, A. J., & Hulland...
One important success factor of foreign firms in Russia is the establishment of efficient networks with non-market stakeholders. Stakeholder networks may help foreign firms to obtain relevant information, accelerate administrative decision-making and reduce political risks. The objective of this study is to analyze the stakeholder networks between German investors in Russia and their socio-political interest groups. The study is based on in-depth interviews with the representatives of 3 German firms and 16 socio-political interest groups in autumn 2006. The results of a within-case and a cross-case analysis reveal that the development of stakeholder relations is important for the success of foreign companies in Russia. These may differ in size, intensity, density and centrality, dependi...
...Finally, the qualitative method of data collection allowed for a data set w... in full and processed with the software program NVivo. As protocol technique the transcrip...
Organizations seek new ways to stimulate collective competences. One possible way this can be done is though self-managing teams. This paper aims to understand the collective competences based on their constitutive elements: interaction, sensemaking and identity. For this study we investigated a Brazilian world-class petrochemical company, recognized by their excellence in working with self-managed teams. Two semi-autonomous teams were studied, distinct in its pattern and performance. The main results point out that the understanding of collective competences is more related to the dynamics and the interaction process itself rather than to the content of this approach and its constitutive elements separately.
...This research aims to design a qualitative case study, carried out in a Brazilian worldclass ...Document analysis (administrative documents and company reports) was... artifacts such as groupware software and e-mails allow the team to interact and communi...
... by making client specific investments in software, IT infrastructure and training, and by involving ...For example, using an event-history analysis, Levinthal and Fichman (1988) find that auditor-cl... Likert scales, in particular for more qualitative variables (e.g., perceived task features). Particu...
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