Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory

By B. Wuetherick. 2010

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An updated and revised edition of Corbin and Strauss’ popular handbook on grounded theory, Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory (3rd edition), remains a classic in qualitative research. This third edition, one of the most readable and practical explorations of grounded theory available, is a must-read for any graduate student or researcher interested in using grounded theory for qualitative research. Corbin and Strauss have laid out their volume in a manner that easily walks any beginning (or experienced) researcher through the grounded theory approach to data collection, analysis, and reflection. The combination of both writing about the process and demonstrating it with actual research study examples works very well for reinforcing how to “make sense out of masses of qualitative data” using grounded theory (pp. ix-x). A classic, it should remain on the shelves of researchers for years to come. What Corbin and Strauss’ revised edition is not, however, is a guide to the basics of all qualitative research. It is important to realize when reading this book that there are both subtle and explicit differences between various qualitative research methods. The strength of this book is that it stays focused on exploring a grounded theory approach to qualitative research and does not try to incorporate other qualitative methodologies into the text. Contrary to its title, however, the Basics of Qualitative Research does not delve deeply into other commonly used qualitative methodologies. The author(s) acknowledge this issue when they state: I am not an expert in other methods . . . each method has its own theoretical foundation, purpose and procedures for collecting and analyzing data. Quality quantitative research can be done using all of the different methods as long as the user is true to the method. (p. 326)

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Co-Creation in Virtual Worlds: The Design of the User Experience (2011, positive): “Data were analyzed using the open coding techniques typical of a grounded theory approach (Strauss and Corbin 1990).”
Can sample size in qualitative research be determined a priori? (2018, positive): “27 Corbin and Strauss (2015) Propose at least five one-hour interviews for theoretical saturation in grounded theory studies. Warren (2002) Suggests that the norm in terms of the minimum number of interviews is in the range of 20–30 in order to ‘have a nonethnographic interview study published’ (p.”
The Rapid Urban Growth Triad: A New Conceptual Framework for Examining the Urban Transition in Developing Countries (2017, positive): “Following the practices of Strauss and Corbin [37], this paper takes an abductive approach to grounded theory.”
Grief, commiseration, and consumption following the death of a celebrity (2012, neutral): “Therefore, we assumed that no new insights would be generated from subsequent data points (Strauss and Corbin 1998).”
Exploitation or exploration in service business development? : Insights from a dynamic capabilities perspective (2010, positive): “To assure validity of data analysis, manual and computer-aided content analyses were used, based on QSR NUD *IST (NVivo 7.0q) procedure (Strauss and Corbin, 1998).”
A MODEL OF ‘CREATIVE EXPERIENCE’ IN CREATIVE TOURISM (2013, positive): “It also enables researchers to produce conceptually dense theories that consist of relationships among concepts representing ‘patterns of action and interaction between and among various types of social unit’s (Strauss & Corbin, 1998, p. 278).”
Defining the Sharing Economy for Sustainability (2019, positive): “Methods presented by Keathley-Herring et al. [57], Randhawa et al. [58], Corbin & Strauss [59] and Bazeley & Jackson [60] primarily supported us in developing our approaches to both.”
Defining Respectful Leadership: What It Is, How It Can Be Measured, and Another Glimpse at What It Is Related to (2009, positive): “Data Analysis Procedure The qualitative data on respectful leaders was subjected to an explorative content analysis based on qualitative content analysis paradigm of Mayring (2000) as well as the principles and methods of Grounded Theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1998).”
‘It’s good to be angry’: Enacting anger in construction project management to achieve perceived leader effectiveness (2011, positive): “The rationale for selecting it emanates from the fact that other techniques, such as grounded theory, can be too prescriptive in that it specifies the procedure that must be followed (Strauss and Corbin, 1998).”
The economics of COVID-19: initial empirical evidence on how family firms in five European countries cope with the corona crisis (2020, positive): “We independently read the transcripts and coded the data in an open manner (Miles et al., 2014; Corbin and Strauss, 2014) to determine how family firms were affected, the specific measures family firms take and which additional changes within the firms emerged due to the COVID-19 crisis.”
Managing technological change in the digital age: the role of architectural frames (2014, positive): “As to avoid imposing our lens without sensitivity to the story that the data tell, however, we initiated our analysis by using open coding to discover concepts and their properties and dimensions in the data material (Strauss and Corbin, 1998; Charmaz, 2006).”
Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Role of Regulatory Reform in Integrated Reporting (2015, positive): “together into categories to form more complete explanations of the data; and selective coding integrates and refines the categories into themes as patterns emerge (Patton 2002; Strauss and Corbin 1998).”
Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change (2018, positive): “The method draws upon the constructivist version of Grounded Theory and axial coding (Strauss and Corbin, 1998; Charmaz, 2014).”
A Call to Educate, Participate, Invoke and Indict: Understanding the Communication of Online Hate Groups (2010, positive): “This process enables the researcher to synthesize the data into a lucid and meaningful whole (Strauss & Corbin, 1998).”
Supply chain resilience: the whole is not the sum of the parts (2019, neutral): “The second-order themes were aggregated into six broader theoretical dimensions that served as foundations for our discussion (Strauss and Corbin, 1998; Gioia et al., 2013) and are linked to each phase of resilience and to the supply chain context.”
When Does Technology Use Enable Network Change in Organizations? A Comparative Study of Feature Use and Shared Affordances (2013, positive): “In Step 3, I used the process of axial coding (Strauss and Corbin 1998) to create new codes that linked together codes from Step 1 about what informants initially heard about CrashLab to codes from Step 2 about how they used it for the first time.”