2020
DOI: 10.1177/1476127020979329
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Using tables to enhance trustworthiness in qualitative research

Abstract: In this essay, we discuss how tables can be used to ensure—and reassure about—trustworthiness in qualitative research. We posit that in qualitative research, tables help not only increase transparency about data collection, analysis, and findings, but also—and no less importantly—organize and analyze data effectively. We present some of the tables most frequently used by qualitative researchers, explain their uses, discuss how they enhance trustworthiness, and provide illustrative examples to inspire readers i… Show more

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“…Thus, the proposed policy not only increases the credibility of the management and organization discipline, but also contributes to leveling the playing field. Furthermore, in response to the credibility crisis, qualitative scholars have been busy devising alternative transparency-ensuring techniques (O'Kane, Smith, and Lerman 2021;Cloutier and Ravasi 2021;Pratt, Kaplan, and Whittington 2020;Plakoyiannaki and Budhwar 2021;Grodal, Anteby, and Holm 2021) that consider quality criteria relevant for assessing such research (Lincoln and Guba 1985). Thus, the requirements seem to increase for all research designs.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, the proposed policy not only increases the credibility of the management and organization discipline, but also contributes to leveling the playing field. Furthermore, in response to the credibility crisis, qualitative scholars have been busy devising alternative transparency-ensuring techniques (O'Kane, Smith, and Lerman 2021;Cloutier and Ravasi 2021;Pratt, Kaplan, and Whittington 2020;Plakoyiannaki and Budhwar 2021;Grodal, Anteby, and Holm 2021) that consider quality criteria relevant for assessing such research (Lincoln and Guba 1985). Thus, the requirements seem to increase for all research designs.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Analysis of the statements and their iteration with other data began thus to reveal temporal narratives of events at play to us, flavoured by the cultural biases of our informants, yet collectively neutral in approaching the original sequences of events (Schein, 1991). We increasingly came to understand and learned to streamline our originally somewhat unfocused topic of scientific inquiry with established qualitative research procedures and protocols towards a relevant innovation model and scientifically rigorous findings (Cloutier & Ravasi, 2021; von Krogh et al, 2012). We repeatedly triangulated our data for internal consistency, credibility, validity and increased reliability (Brinberg & McGrath, 1985; Yin, 2003).…”
Section: Research Processmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We repeatedly triangulated our data for internal consistency, credibility, validity and increased reliability (Brinberg & McGrath, 1985; Yin, 2003). Thus, we did not as much ‘manipulate the data’ (Miles & Huberman, 1994) as we did (1) categorize interview data into first‐order codes in line with conventional innovation‐management language (Table 2); (2) contextualize the data and first‐order codes into second‐order themes to identify the more general context, factors and relationships and (3) document and capture the variables of interest in aggregate dimensions for our conceptual framework and explanation of the phenomenon that we have been studying (Cloutier & Ravasi, 2021; Gioia et al, 2013; Yin, 2003). As is often the case in qualitative research, more than once we came across something even more interesting than what we had learned earlier and revisited and even changed our theoretical ideas (Alvesson & Sandberg, 2012; Davis, 1971; Whyte, 1999).…”
Section: Research Processmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This study abided by the criteria of credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability – the trustworthiness criteria (Table 3). We took several strategic steps to increase transparency (Cloutier and Ravasi 2021).…”
Section: The Studymentioning
confidence: 99%