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Karen Golden-Biddle
Researcher at Boston University
Publications - 48
Citations - 5433
Karen Golden-Biddle is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Organizational studies. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 47 publications receiving 4933 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen Golden-Biddle include Emory University & University of Alberta.
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Appealing Work: An Investigation of How Ethnographic Texts Convince
Karen Golden-Biddle,Karen Locke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how written research accounts based on ethnography appeal to readers to find them convincing and highlight the role of rhetoric in the readers' interaction with and interpretation of the accounts.
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Towards systematic reviews that inform health care management and policy-making.
TL;DR: A systematic review of studies of decision-making by health care managers and policy-makers and the websites of research funders, producers/purveyors of research, and journals that include them among their target audiences found that contextual factors were rarely highlighted, recommendations were often provided and graded entry formats were rarely used.
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Composing qualitative research
Karen Golden-Biddle,Karen Locke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the style and practice of academic writing as "unadorned and disembodied" and "interested and persuasive discourse" focusing on "Story" Organization of Chapters.
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Constructing Opportunities for Contribution: Structuring Intertextual Coherence and “Problematizing” in Organizational Studies
Karen Locke,Karen Golden-Biddle +1 more
TL;DR: This paper developed a grounded theory of contribution that shows how organization studies theorists textually construct opportunities for making contributions to the field of organizational studies. But they did not consider the role of the authors in making contributions.
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Breaches in the Boardroom: Organizational Identity and Conflicts of Commitment in a Nonprofit Organization
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically studied the cultural embeddedness of boards in a nonprofit organization called Medlay and found that the role of the director is shaped by Medlay's Janus-faced identity, as both a volunteer-driven organization and a family of friends.