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Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook

TL;DR: This book presents a step-by-step guide to making the research results presented in reports, slideshows, posters, and data visualizations more interesting, and describes how coding initiates qualitative data analysis.
Abstract: Matthew B. Miles, Qualitative Data Analysis A Methods Sourcebook, Third Edition. The Third Edition of Miles & Huberman's classic research methods text is updated and streamlined by Johnny Saldana, author of The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. Several of the data display strategies from previous editions are now presented in re-envisioned and reorganized formats to enhance reader accessibility and comprehension. The Third Edition's presentation of the fundamentals of research design and data management is followed by five distinct methods of analysis: exploring, describing, ordering, explaining, and predicting. Miles and Huberman's original research studies are profiled and accompanied with new examples from Saldana's recent qualitative work. The book's most celebrated chapter, "Drawing and Verifying Conclusions," is retained and revised, and the chapter on report writing has been greatly expanded, and is now called "Writing About Qualitative Research." Comprehensive and authoritative, Qualitative Data Analysis has been elegantly revised for a new generation of qualitative researchers. Johnny Saldana, The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers, Second Edition. The Second Edition of Johnny Saldana's international bestseller provides an in-depth guide to the multiple approaches available for coding qualitative data. Fully up-to-date, it includes new chapters, more coding techniques and an additional glossary. Clear, practical and authoritative, the book: describes how coding initiates qualitative data analysis; demonstrates the writing of analytic memos; discusses available analytic software; suggests how best to use the book for particular studies. In total, 32 coding methods are profiled that can be applied to a range of research genres from grounded theory to phenomenology to narrative inquiry. For each approach, Saldana discusses the method's origins, a description of the method, practical applications, and a clearly illustrated example with analytic follow-up. A unique and invaluable reference for students, teachers, and practitioners of qualitative inquiry, this book is essential reading across the social sciences. Stephanie D. H. Evergreen, Presenting Data Effectively Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact. This is a step-by-step guide to making the research results presented in reports, slideshows, posters, and data visualizations more interesting. Written in an easy, accessible manner, Presenting Data Effectively provides guiding principles for designing data presentations so that they are more likely to be heard, remembered, and used. The guidance in the book stems from the author's extensive study of research reporting, a solid review of the literature in graphic design and related fields, and the input of a panel of graphic design experts. Those concepts are then translated into language relevant to students, researchers, evaluators, and non-profit workers - anyone in a position to have to report on data to an outside audience. The book guides the reader through design choices related to four primary areas: graphics, type, color, and arrangement. As a result, readers can present data more effectively, with the clarity and professionalism that best represents their work.
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TL;DR: Evaluated the use of Photovoice, a CBPR method that uses participant-employed photography and dialogue to create social change, which was employed in a research partnership with a First Nation in Western Canada and revealed that photovoice effectively balanced power, created a sense of ownership, fostered trust, built capacity, and responded to cultural preferences.

582 citations


Cites background or methods from "Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expan..."

  • ...Through an iterative process of comparing and contrasting (Miles & Huberman, 1994), five key themes were refined around Photovoice....

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  • ...Inductive content analysis (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005) identified several emergent themes, which were then developed into consistent categories as concepts became more concrete (Miles & Huberman, 1994)....

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TL;DR: This paper explored the identities, behaviors, and actions of 49 firm founders in the sports-related equipment industry and showed how these identities systematically shape key decisions in the creation of new firms, thereby "imprinting" the startups with the founders' distinct self-concepts.
Abstract: Drawing on social identity theory, we explore the identities, behaviors, and actions of 49 firm founders in the sports-related equipment industry. Our analysis suggests the existence of three pure types of founder identities and shows how these identities systematically shape key decisions in the creation of new firms, thereby “imprinting” the start-ups with the founders’ distinct self-concepts. We synthesize our findings in a typology that sheds light on the heterogeneous meanings that founders associate with new firm creation and that improves understanding as to why fundamental differences in firm creation processes and outcomes exist.

581 citations


Cites background or methods from "Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expan..."

  • ...We analyzed data collected through interviews and secondary sources using an inductive methodological approach (Glaser & Strauss, 2006; Miles & Huberman, 1994; Strauss & Corbin, 1998)....

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  • ...Studying the interviews line by line, each of us first coded all responses that provided information on the identity meanings that the interviewees associated with being a founder (Miles & Huberman, 1994; Strauss & Corbin, 1998)....

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  • ...This approach increased the probability that we would collect different and varied data on founder identities and actions and would have the opportunity to determine their range of variability (Glaser & Strauss, 2006; Miles & Huberman, 1994)....

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  • ...In keeping with the social identity literature and guidelines for coding and analyzing qualitative data (Miles & Huberman, 1994; Strauss & Corbin, 1998), we identified identity meanings by analyzing our transcribed interviews....

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TL;DR: Evaluated reports in the nursing literature in the period 1990-1999 of the use of focus groups as a research method called for more in-depth consideration at the research planning stages of the underlying assumptions of methodological approaches used to underpin focus group research and methods to be used to analyse and report the data generated.
Abstract: Focus groups as a research method: a critique of some aspects of their use in nursing research Objective. To evaluate and critique reports in the nursing literature in the period 1990–1999 of the use of focus groups as a research method. Methods. The articles were identified by a computerized search of the CINAHL database and subjected to critical review. Findings. The result of the search was that very few articles were found that reported on a specific piece of research using the method. Methodological discussions were more common and these were sometimes at a somewhat superficial level without analysis or critique. The largest category of articles was concerned with service development projects. The research-based articles were found to be relatively unsophisticated in their use of the method, in particular in relation to data analysis and social interaction within focus groups. Terms such as ‘content analysis’ and ‘grounded theory’ were used in nonrigorous ways and incompatibility between the underlying research approach and implementation of the method was identified in the cases of phenomenology and grounded theory. Whilst selection of the focus group method was often justified in terms of the benefits that participant interaction could yield, this interaction was rarely reported or discussed in the articles. One author proposed a scheme for analysing this type of interaction, and this is recommended to future researchers as a possible framework for interaction analysis. Conclusions. The article concludes by calling for more in-depth consideration at the research planning stages of the underlying assumptions of methodological approaches that may be used to underpin focus group research and methods to be used to analyse and report the data generated.

580 citations


Cites methods from "Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expan..."

  • ...Some writers recommend the use of analysis grids drawn out on paper to aid organization of data and identi®cation of themes (Miles & Huberman 1994, Higginbottom 1998, Robinson 1999)....

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01 Jul 2000
TL;DR: Many job attributes became relatively more important to women and girls in the 1980s and 1990s compared with the 1970s, indicating that women's aspirations to obtain job attributes rose as gender barriers to opportunity declined.
Abstract: Many researchers have studied sex differences in job attribute preferences. The authors meta-analyzed 242 samples collected from 321,672 men and boys and 316,842 women and girls in the United States between 1970 and 1998. Findings indicated significant (p < .05) sex differences on 33 of 40 job attribute preferences examined. The effect sizes were small. Of the 33 significant differences, 26 had average effect sizes of magnitude .20 or less. The directions of the differences were generally consistent with gender roles and stereotypes. Many job attributes became relatively more important to women and girls in the 1980s and 1990s compared with the 1970s, indicating that women's aspirations to obtain job attributes rose as gender barriers to opportunity declined.

579 citations


Cites background from "Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expan..."

  • ...Miles and Huberman (1994) suggested the following formula to calculate the interrater reliability of a coding system: (number of agreements)/(total number of agreements plus disagreements)....

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TL;DR: An SME cloud computing adoption model that was theoretically grounded in the TOE framework was developed, and it was shown that the three contexts of this framework (technological, organisational, and environmental) are connected to each other.
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a growing body of research on cloud computing, by studying the small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) adoption process. If SMEs have access to scalable technologies they could potentially deliver products and services that in the past only large enterprises could deliver, flattening the competitive arena., – By adopting the Technological, Organisational and Environmental (TOE) framework as a theoretical base, this qualitative exploratory study used semi‐structured interviews to collect data in 15 different SMEs and service providers in the north east of England. The north east of England was selected as it is a region that aspires to become home to innovative digital firms and most of the companies in the region are SMEs., – The main factors that were identified as playing a significant role in SME adoption of cloud services were: relative advantage, uncertainty, geo‐restriction, compatibility, trialability, size, top management support, prior experience, innovativeness, industry, market scope, supplier efforts and external computing support. In contrast, this study did not find enough evidence that competitive pressure was a significant determinant of cloud computing adoption., – These findings have important implications and great value to the research community, managers and information and communication technologies (ICT) providers, in terms of formulating better strategies for cloud computing adoption. For service providers, using the research model in this study can assist in increasing their understanding of why some SMEs choose to adopt cloud computing services, while seemingly similar ones facing similar market conditions do not. Also, cloud computing providers may need to improve their interaction with SMEs which are involved in the cloud computing experience, in an effort to create a healthy environment for cloud computing adoption, and to remove any vagueness surrounding this type of technology., – This study is an attempt to explore and develop an SME cloud computing adoption model that was theoretically grounded in the TOE framework. By adopting the TOE framework this study has shown that the three contexts of this framework (technological, organisational, and environmental) are connected to each other.

578 citations


Cites methods from "Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expan..."

  • ...The data obtained were summarised and simplified with the intention of condensing it (Robson, 2002; Saunders et al., 2007), while data display was concerned with organising and assembling information, which finally enabled us to reach our conclusions (Miles and Huberman, 1994)....

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  • ...Data management and analysis was performed according to the procedure suggested by Miles and Huberman (1994)....

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