Working Within Hyphen-Spaces in Ethnographic Research: Implications for Research Identities and Practice

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 364-392

  Cunliffe, Ann L ^a,b   Karunanayake, Geetha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b FUNDAÇÃO GETÚLIO VARGAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

constructivism; ethnography; interpretivism; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878764140     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428113489353     Document Type: Article

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