Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods provides a state-of-the art overview of qualitative research methods in the business and management field. Bringing together a team of leading international researchers, the chapters offer a comprehensive overview of the key methods and challenges encountered when undertaking qualitative research in the field. The chapters have been arranged into three thematic parts:

Part One examines a broad spectrum of contemporary methods, from autoethnography and discourse analysis, to shadowing and thematic analysis.

Part Two presents an overview of key visual methods, such as photographs, drawing, video and web images.

Part Three explores methodological developments, including aesthetics and smell, fuzzy set comparative analysis, and beyond.

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Catherine Cassell has a longstanding interest in research methodology and the use of qualitative methods in the business, organization and management fields. She has co-edited four books for Sage on qualitative organizational research and published numerous papers about the uses of qualitative research in the organizational psychology and management field more generally. Her latest text Interviews for Business and Management Students will be published by Sage in early 2015. Catherine was the founding chair of British Academy of Management′s Special Interest group in Research Methodology - a group she is still heavily involved with - and a founding member of the steering committee of the European Academy of Management's Special Interest Group in Research Methods and Research Practice. She is inaugural co-Editor of Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: an international journal, and on the editorial boards of numerous other journals. She is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Having previously held a number of senior academic appointments, she is currently Deputy Dean and Professor of Organizational Psychology at Leeds University Business School. Ann L. Cunliffe is Professor of Organization Studies at Fundação Getulio Vargas-EAESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil. She held positions at the Universities of Bradford, Leeds and Hull in the UK, and the Universities of New Mexico, New Hampshire and California State University in the USA. Ann's current research lies at the intersection of organizational studies, philosophy and communications, exploring how leaders and managers shape organizational life, selves and action in living conversations. In particular, she is interested in examining the relationship between language and responsive and ethical ways of managing organizations. Other interests include: leadership, selfhood, qualitative research methods, embodied sensemaking, and developing reflexive approaches to management research, practice and learning.

Her recent publications include the book A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management(2014). She has published articles in Organizational Research Methods, Human Relations, Management Learning, Journal of Management Studies, and the British Journal of Management. She organizes the biennial Qualitative Research in Management and Organization Conference in New Mexico, USA.

Gina Grandy is Professor and RBC Women in Leadership Scholar with the Hill and Levene Schools of Business at the University of Regina located in Saskatchewan, Canada. Her research interests include leadership, gender and women's experiences at work, stigmatized work, identity, qualitative research methods, and case writing. She is the Associate Editor for Case Research Journal and serves on the international advisory board for Management Learning and Gender in Management: An International Journal. Her research has been published widely in such journals as Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies, Gender, Work and Organization, Organization, Management Learning, Gender in Management, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, and Case Research Journal.