The staff ride: An approach to qualitative data generation and analysis

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 316-335

  Becker, Wendy S ^a   Burke, Michael J ^b  

^a SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

context; qualitative research method; retrospective case study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857750042     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428111425615     Document Type: Article

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