Enhancing the trustworthiness of qualitative research in international business

Management International Review

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 689-714

  Sinkovics, Rudolf R ^a   Penz, Elfriede ^b   Ghauri, Pervez N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equivalence; Ernie and etic approaches; Interviews; Qualitative research; Reliability; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249246607     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-008-0103-z     Document Type: Article

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