Michael J. Gill

TL;DR: In this paper, a typology that classifies and contrasts five popular phenomenological methodologies is presented, along with a series of guidelines to guide researchers in choosing the methodologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the benefits and costs of covert participant observation are discussed, and different ethical perspectives and techniques to address the practical challenges of such a method are explored. But, they do not address the ethical aspects of such an approach, such as; gaining access, collecting data surreptitiously, reducing harm to participants, leaving the site of study and addressing ethical issues.

TL;DR: This article explored the experiences of eight management consultants in the British office of a global consulting firm over several months and found that the continual promotion of an elite identity within the consulting firm leaves many of the consultants feeling acutely anxious about their status.

TL;DR: In this paper, organizational historians bring their role in the construction of historical narratives to the fore and open their research decisions up for discussion, and provide guidelines to support this endeavor, drawing on four criteria that are prevalent within interpretive organization studies for developing the trustworthiness of research: credibility, confirmability, dependability and transferability.

TL;DR: This paper found that the multifaceted emotion of fear characterised chefs' experiences and served to sustain their institution, and that the very experience and eliciting of fear preserved an essential institutional ingredient.