Field guide to intercultural research
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Field guide to intercultural research
(Elgar field guides)
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, c2021
- pbk.
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Originally published: 2021
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This informative Field Guide to Intercultural Research is specifically designed to be used in the field, guiding the reader away from pitfalls and towards best practice. It shares valuable fieldwork challenges and experiences, as well as insights into key methodological debates and practical recommendations relevant to both new and seasoned researchers.
Offering an international outlook and featuring insights from across four continents, this invaluable guide introduces new methods and approaches to data analysis, tackling various research phases, including perspectives from quantitative researchers. It focuses on the role of culture and the intercultural challenges that fieldworkers encounter, enticing readers into further conversations concerning the role of fieldwork in producing new knowledge. Expert contributors illustrate the benefits of field research in intercultural research not only to academic literature, but also to organisational policies and the societies within which we work and live.
Including insights from the fields of ethnography and social anthropology, this cutting edge guide is crucial reading for all students and researchers of business and management studies as well as organisational development hoping to begin their foray into fieldwork, as well as experienced scholars looking for new approaches to field research. It will also benefit management professionals and consultants in need of an expanded knowledge-base for coFnducting action research or other interventions in organisations.
Table of Contents
Contents:
Preface: some musings on fieldwork in a business context xxiv
Malcolm Chapman
1 Introduction: following the researchers into the field 1
David S. A. Guttormsen, Jakob Lauring and Malcolm Chapman
PART I PRACTICAL THEMES
2 Using grounded theory in an African business context 14
W. Travis Selmier II and Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi
3 Intercultural survey research: challenges and suggested solutions 29
Anne-Wil Harzing, B. Sebastian Reiche and Markus Pudelko
4 Interviewing global elites 41
William S. Harvey
5 Survey-based research in remote Indigenous communities:
considerations for methods 54
Indigo Holcombe-James and Ellie Rennie
6 Methodological reflections on researching ethnic business
in Southern Europe: experiences from the field 68
Gunhild Odden
7 Overcoming challenges in intercultural interviewing: the
role of intercultural training for early-career researchers 81
Ritam Garg and Petra Poljsak-Rosinski
8 Coding intercultural fieldwork data: a hands-on approach 93
Mai Skjott Linneberg and Steffen Korsgaard
9 Some practical advice on collecting qualitative data:
outline of a fieldwork process 106
Jakob Lauring and Charlotte Jonasson
10 Unlocking the affordances of digital technology in
qualitative research 119
Marta Jackowska
PART II THEORETICAL THEMES
11 Reflections on an intercultural (research) life 135
Bruce W. Stening
12 Doing field work in culturally hybrid locations 147
Mette Zolner
13 Researching religion in organizations: key issues and strategies 157
Christopher Richardson
14 Operationalizing 'culture' when conducting cross-cultural
fieldwork: the case of Germany and South Africa 166
Badri Zolfaghari
15 Academic disciplines have cultures, too: intercultural
challenges for interdisciplinary researchers in the field 178
David S. A. Guttormsen, Petra Poljsak-Rosinski, Htwe
Htwe Thein, Trifon Pavkov, Katarina Brkovic and Michael Gillan
16 Dilemmas with multiple social identities in the field of
international development 193
Masumi Owa
17 Strategies to survive on foreign turf: experience sharing
and reflections from two apparent aliens in the field 204
Annelise Ly and Ingrid Onarheim Spjeldnaes
18 'Inside-out': race, role and relations in intercultural fieldwork 216
Charlotte Jonasson, Jakob Lauring and David S. A. Guttormsen
19 Intercultural challenges of 'rapport' in French-German
organizational field research - insights from a binational
research tandem 229
Christoph Barmeyer and Eric Davoine
PART III REGIONAL THEMES
20 Cultural considerations and qualitative research within an
African context 243
Nomusa Benita Mazonde
21 Navigating the realities of intercultural research in
Sub-Saharan Africa: insights from Nigeria 255
Adebukola E. Oyewunmi, Stephen I. Ukenna and Ebes Esho
22 The challenges of conducting field studies in China 269
Anna Shostya, Moshe Banai and Joseph C. Morreale
23 Challenges and promoters during international fieldwork in
Lebanon 287
Hana Abdo, Amelie Artis and Anne Bartel-Radic
24 Intersectional challenges of conducting qualitative research
in the Middle East 295
Maranda Ridgway and Fiona Robson
25 Crossing borders, traversing cultures and mediating
identities: a reflection on fieldwork conducted in the Arab Gulf 310
Sarina Theys
26 Doing qualitative field research in Vietnam 321
Thi My Hanh Huynh and Anne Bartel-Radic
27 Investigating the worldview of professionals: reflections
on the challenges of researching in the Thai culture 329
Astrid Kainzbauer and Brian Hunt
Afterword 340
Fiona Moore
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"