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TY - JOUR
T1 - Interest-talk as access-talk
T2 - how interests are displayed, made and down-played in management research
AU - Whittle, Andrea
AU - Mueller , Frank
AU - Lenney, Peter
AU - Gilchrist, Alan
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - This paper addresses the methodological issue of how researchers gain access and build trust in order to conduct research in organisations. We focus in particular on the role of interests (what an actor wants, or what they stand to gain or lose) in the research relationship. Our analysis shows how notions of interests, stake and motive were managed during an ethnographic action research study in a UK subsidiary of a multi-national corporation. We use an approach to discourse analysis inspired by the field of Discursive Psychology to identify four discursive devices: stake inoculation, stake confession, stake attribution and stake construction. We contribute to the understanding of research methodology by identifying the importance of interest-talk in the process of doing management research.
AB - This paper addresses the methodological issue of how researchers gain access and build trust in order to conduct research in organisations. We focus in particular on the role of interests (what an actor wants, or what they stand to gain or lose) in the research relationship. Our analysis shows how notions of interests, stake and motive were managed during an ethnographic action research study in a UK subsidiary of a multi-national corporation. We use an approach to discourse analysis inspired by the field of Discursive Psychology to identify four discursive devices: stake inoculation, stake confession, stake attribution and stake construction. We contribute to the understanding of research methodology by identifying the importance of interest-talk in the process of doing management research.
KW - Access
KW - action research
KW - discourse analysis
KW - discursive psychology
KW - ethnography
KW - interests
KW - participant observation
KW - research methods
KW - trust
U2 - 10.1111/1467-8551.12021
DO - 10.1111/1467-8551.12021
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 607
EP - 628
JO - British Journal of Management
JF - British Journal of Management
SN - 1045-3172
IS - 3
ER -