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Flashcards by Nikolas Bosin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Nikolas Bosin
over 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| We think of qualitative research in 3 ways... | - Theory testing -Theory elaborating - Theory generating |
| Why do we need qualitative research? | 1. To describe what is occuring 2. To explain why something is occuring |
| What methods are usually used to acquire qualitative data? | Field studies |
| What are important characteristics of qualitative work? | - Happens in the field - Data is from perspective of participants - Flexibled, reflective research design - No standards for observations --> issues for reliability |
| What are possible research methods to gather qualitative data? | - Case study research - Process research - Ethnography (interacting with organisation for substantial amount of time) - In-depth interviews |
| What data does qualitative research produce? | unstructured data with no obvious patterns to it |
| Why is coding of qualitative data important? | To reduce the amount of data, to structure it and to get more out of it |
| What are case studies? | continuous comparison of data and theory starting with data collection |
| What are the steps of case studies by Eisenhardt? | Gebe den Text hier ein... |
| Field-based work, such as case studies, usually scores highly on __ and poorly on __ | understanding of system and context; measuring behaviour precisely |
| What sampling technique would be appropriate for case studies? | Theoretical sampling (beacuse extreme situations and strongly differing cases are observed to allow for transparency) |
| Important characteristics of case studies: | - Case study research is related to grounded theory building - Case studies focus on understanding the dynamics within individual cases - C.S. include either one or more cases and multiple levels of analysis - C.S. typically combine multiple methods of data collection |
| Why are used multiple methods for case studies? | - Quantitative data help the researcher be led astray by wrong impressions from qualitative data - Qualitative data are helpful to understand causal realtionships and to derive theoretical conclusions |
| Critique on qualitative research (e.g. interviews) | - small sample size - no statistical analysis --> higher degree of subjectivity |
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