Qualitative Research: Experiences in Using Semi-Structured Interviews

By Joanne Horton, R. Macve, Geert Struyven. 2004

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Subfields: Accounting, Management Information Systems

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In Accounting

1. Margaret Woods
2. Anil L. Pathak
3. Charatdao Intratat
4. Hui Hu
5. Jesmin Islam

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1. Margaret Woods
2. Anil L. Pathak
3. Charatdao Intratat
4. Hui Hu
5. Jesmin Islam

Citations in the corpus

• Use of Semi-Structured Interviews to Investigate Teacher Perceptions of Student Collaboration (2016, methodology): “(Briggs, 2000; Horton et al, 2004) In conclusion, this interview technique, if used carefully, provides rich data for qualitative studies.”
• A contingency theory perspective on the risk management control system within Birmingham City Council (2009, background): “In this research, interviews were critical because of the relative novelty of the issues being discussed (Horton et al, 2004), which left the researcher with some initial uncertainties regarding what were the most important questions to ask.”
• Social and Academic Adjustment of First-Year University Students (2012, background): “A semi-structured interview was chosen in order to allow the researcher a degree of freedom to explain his thoughts and to highlight areas of particular interest and expertise that he felt he had, as well as to enable certain responses to be questioned in greater depth, and in particular to bring ou”