Templates and Turns in Qualitative Studies of Strategy and Management

By Ann Langley, Chahrazad Abdallah. 2011

521 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e6240ae2d9d63069ccb187c0b2521fa15a96efac

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Management Information Systems

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

In Strategy and Management

Citations in the corpus

Achieving Rigor in Qualitative Analysis: The Role of Active Categorization in Theory Building (2020, unknown): “…active perspective on theory building has not been at the center of qualitative analysis published in management scholarship (Bansal & Corley, 2011; Langley & Abdallah, 2015), a close reading across decades of scholarship on qualitative analysis reveals that there is support for the active…”
Topic Modeling in Management Research: Rendering New Theory from Textual Data (2019, background): “Thanks to widespread availability of digitized textual data from a variety of sources and significant increases in computational power, it is now possible for social scientists to study large collections of text (Alvesson & Kärreman, 2000a, 2000b; Langley & Abdallah, 2011; Vaara, 2010).”
How Do Firms Comply with International Sustainability Standards? Processes and Consequences of Adopting the Global Reporting Initiative (2015, methodology): “In our data analysis, we followed what has been named by Langley & Abdallah (2011), the ‘Gioia template’ of qualitative studies (see Gioia et al., 2013).”
Editorial Essay: The Tumult over Transparency: Decoupling Transparency from Replication in Establishing Trustworthy Qualitative Research* (2019, background): “There has recently been an outcry that journals are becoming too enamored with the use of such templates in qualitative research (e.g., Langley and Abdallah, 2011; Bansal, Smith, and Vaara, 2018; Gehman et al., 2018; Reay et al., 2020).”
Moving Beyond Templates: A Bricolage Approach to Conducting Trustworthy Qualitative Research (2020, background): “Langley and Abdallah (2011) identified two major templates used in qualitative research: Eisenhardt’s view of case methods and Gioia’s view of grounded theory.1 These authors defined both the logical and rhetorical structures underlying these templates and how they can be productively used.”
Financing Decisions in Family Businesses: A Review and Suggestions for Developing the Field (2017, background): “A way to open this black box can be through qualitative research, which is very relevant in examining and understanding processes (Langley & Abdallah, 2011; Pratt, 2009), but at the same time, it allows answering “why” and “how” questions, which are very difficult to answer through quantitative…”
Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research (2013, background): “…Switzerland, for organizing the 2010 Academy of Management Professional Development Workshop, ‘‘The ‘Gioia Methodology’ for Conducting Inductive Qualitative Analysis’’; and also Ann Langley and Chahrazad Abdallah for their summary of the ‘‘Gioia Method’’ approach (Langley & Abdallah, 2011).”
Coding Practices and Iterativity: Beyond Templates for Analyzing Qualitative Data (2020, methodology): “Iterativity is a feature of two predominant templates in the organizational methods landscape: the Eisenhardt method 1 and the Gioia method 2 (Langley & Abdallah, 2011; Reay et al., 2019).”