Reducing confusion about grounded theory and qualitative content analysis: Similarities and differences

Qualitative Report

Volumn , Issue 32, 2014, Pages

  Cho, Ji Young ^a   Lee, Eun Hee ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Data Analysis; Grounded Theory; Qualitative Content Analysis; Qualitative Research; Research Method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905644846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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