
Mats Alvesson
Professor

Methodology for close up studies - struggling with closeness and closure
Author
Summary, in English
The paper critically reviews some themes and methods within qualitative research and argues for self-ethnography as an approach to study universities and other settings which the researcher is highly familiar with, and has direct access to. Advantages and disadvantages are discussed. In particular the struggle between utilizing closeness to empirically rich situations and avoid the closure following from being ( staying) native is highlighted. Some ideas for self-ethnographic work in organization studies are developed.
Department/s
- Department of Business Administration
Publishing year
2003
Language
English
Pages
167-193
Publication/Series
Higher Education
Volume
46
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Business Administration
Keywords
- higher education qualitative
- ethnography
- de-familiarization
- organizational research
- methodology
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1573-174X