Text mining in qualitative research: Application of an unsupervised learning method

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 436-460

  Janasik, Nina ^a   Honkela, Timo ^a   Bruun, Henrik ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Pieni Kirahvi Oy Ab   (Finland)

Author keywords

Constructivism; Document interpretation; Grounded theory; Self organizing map; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649535122     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428108317202     Document Type: Article

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