Appreciating Emergence and Serendipity in Qualitative Research

Wiedner, Rene; Ansari, Shaz

doi:10.4324/9781315686103-22

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“…Relying on an inductive approach, my initial research focused simply on how the public makes sense of CSR in an emerging, crisis context. It then evolved to focusing more deeply on the strong signs of cognitive dissonance I noticed in the data and which serendipitously (Wiedner & Ansari, 2017) led me to the theories of cognitive dissonance and cognitive polyphasia. The study of cognitive polyphasia allows for an eclectic mix of research strategies (Lo Monaco et al, 2017) while studies on cognitive dissonance have tended to rely on experimental settings with little use of open-ended approaches despite their potential (Hinojosa et al, 2017; Panagiotou & Kadianaki, 2019).…”

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When the Right Thing to Do Is Also the Wrong Thing: Moral Sensemaking of Responsible Business Behavior During the COVID-19 Crisis

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2022

Business & Society

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This study examines how individual members of the public make moral sense of the potentially conflicting “economic problem” or “public health problem” representations of the COVID-19 crisis when judging responsible business behavior. The data are based on a qualitative survey involving a thought experiment with 119 participants in the United States conducted at the initial stage of the pandemic. This article proposes a typology matrix using the theories of cognitive polyphasia and cognitive dissonance to understand better individual moral sensemaking of responsible business behavior in the context of a societal paradox in which there are contradictory and interdependent demands between important social objectives. The typology, referred to as the 4R Model of Moral Sensemaking of Competing Social Problems, provides insights for how companies may be perceived when responding to competing social problems, expanding the micro-CSR (corporate social responsibility) and paradox literatures.

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When the Right Thing to Do Is Also the Wrong Thing: Moral Sensemaking of Responsible Business Behavior During the COVID-19 Crisis

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2022

Business & Society

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“…Our ongoing data collection and analysis proceeded iteratively, with emerging questions generating provisional answers, further data collection, and further questions (Alvesson & Kärreman, 2007; Wiedner & Ansari, 2017). Through this process, we identified interoccupational tension, and the negative judgments that both administrators and GPs formed of the other group in the course of negotiating new roles, as important.…”

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General Practitioners Are from Mars, Administrators Are from Venus: The Role of Misaligned Occupational Dispositions in Inhibiting Mandated Role Change

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Silva

2020

Work and Occupations

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Research on mandated occupational role change focuses on jurisdictional conflict to explain change failure. The authors’ study of the English National Health Service highlights the role of occupational dispositions in shaping how mandated role change is implemented by members of multiple occupational groups. The authors find that tension stemming from misaligned dispositions may emerge as members of different occupations interact during their role change implementation efforts. Depending on dispositional responses to tension, change may fail as members of the different occupations avoid interactions. This suggests that effective role change can be elusive even in the initial absence of conflicting occupational interests.

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“…Thus, despite a researcher's best efforts, even the best and most thoughtful of planned approaches can go awry. Rigid planning prevents improvisation (Barrett, 2012) and reflexivity (Mason, 2002) and may get in the way of "serendipity" (Fine & Deegan, 1996;Wiedner & Ansari, 2018), leading to missed opportunities. Hence the benefits of more emergent approaches, but these too have their limits, to which we turn now.…”

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“…In this sense, qualitative research design is something that is "'played by ear ': it must unfold, cascade, roll, emerge" (ibid, p. 209). Because they encourage openness and learning, proponents believe that emergent research designs are more likely to produce interesting data that are generative of insight (Wiedner & Ansari, 2018).…”

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“…Planned versus emergent qualitative research design strategies need not, however, be viewed as oppositions, where favoring one approach implicitly undermines the perceived quality and trustworthiness of the other (Wiedner & Ansari, 2018) or supposes the necessity of making “design trade-offs” (Patton, 2015, p. 258) Indeed, a large part of conducting qualitative research involves letting a research site speak for itself while at the same time taking steps that facilitate the emergence of a unique take on “what is going on here”. As Maxwell (2013) notes, terms such as “tight” vs “loose” (Miles & Huberman, 1994), or “fixed” vs “flexible” (Robson, 2011) for qualifying research designs are not helpful, since they can lead researchers to “overlook or ignore the numerous ways in which studies can vary, not just in the amount of prestructuring, but also in how prestructuring is used” (p. 89, italics in original).…”

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Strategies for Generating Deliberately Emergent Qualitative Research Designs

Cloutier

2024

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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In carrying out research, qualitative scholars routinely struggle with having to navigate between planned and emergent research design strategies. Pressure from funders and gatekeepers to plan research can be high, but too much planning can interfere with the ethos of discovery that characterizes inductive qualitative research. On the other hand, study designs that are overly emergent present their own array of risks. In this essay, I argue for the integration of planned and emergent approaches to qualitative research design. I outline strategies for making planned research designs more reflexive and emergent, and strategies for making emergent research designs more directive and planned. I present two competencies—conceptual nimbleness and methodological reflexivity—that can be helpful for designing studies in this way and discuss how these deliberately emergent designs should be reported, with a view to enhancing the transparency and trustworthiness of qualitative research methods more generally.

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Appreciating Emergence and Serendipity in Qualitative Research

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

When the Right Thing to Do Is Also the Wrong Thing: Moral Sensemaking of Responsible Business Behavior During the COVID-19 Crisis

When the Right Thing to Do Is Also the Wrong Thing: Moral Sensemaking of Responsible Business Behavior During the COVID-19 Crisis

General Practitioners Are from Mars, Administrators Are from Venus: The Role of Misaligned Occupational Dispositions in Inhibiting Mandated Role Change

Strategies for Generating Deliberately Emergent Qualitative Research Designs

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