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Grounded Theory for Qualitative Research

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Grounded Theory for
Qualitative Research

A Practical Guide | Cathy Urquhart

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Cathy Urquhart 2013

First published 2013

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Contents

Dedication

This book is respectfully dedicated to Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss (19161996) for their gift to the world that is grounded theory.

About the author

Cathy Urquhart is Professor of Digital and Sustainable Enterprise at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, UK. She has taught qualitative research methods around the world in universities in Australia and New Zealand as well as the UK. She is a senior member of the editorial board of MIS Quarterly, the journal with the highest impact factor in the field of business.

Acknowledgements

No book gets written without a lot of help and I am truly grateful for all the support I have had from various people along the way. First, Id like to thank both my editors at Sage Patrick Brindle and Jai Seaman. Patrick approved the original book proposal and gave me invaluable support and constructive criticism on the early draft. Jai has provided encouragement, support and the final push to finish the book. Id also like to thank David Hodge at Sage for his detailed and helpful critiques of early chapters. Anna Horvai, as editorial assistant at Sage, has provided prompt and helpful assistance at every stage. Thanks, too, to the anonymous peer reviewer who provided invaluable feedback on the book. Thanks also to Ian Antcliff, production editor, and copyeditor Michelle Clark at Sage who helped the prose run more smoothly.

Id also like to thank all those colleagues and students who have debated and discussed grounded theory with me over the years, helping me form ideas about grounded theory method, especially Gillian Reid, Karin Olesen, Antonio Daz Andrade, Mariyam Adam, Karen Day, Riitta Hekkala, Gary Furash, Muhammad Sulayman, and Darren M McDonald. Special thanks go to Hans Lehmann, Walter Fernndez and Gaetan Mourmant for robust conversations about Glaserian grounded theory. Special thanks to Stefan Seidel for his incisive and enormously helpful comments on the draft, provided at just the right time.

Finally, no acknowledgements are complete without heartfelt thanks to those who have sacrificed so much on the domestic front. Thank you to Harry and Hannah for being patient when Mum was working on the book. Thank you to Sheila, Ruth and Helen for being there for me. Last, and most important, thanks to Chris, for taking care of the home front, formatting beyond the call of duty and being a loving constant in my life I am truly grateful, always.

March 2012

How this book is structured

This book is designed for you to use how you want, and contains three major strands, aimed at not only first-time users of grounded theory method (GTM) but also the more experienced. Each chapter focuses on particular aspects, and ends with exercises, Web resources, further reading and frequently asked questions (FAQs) to extend your knowledge further.

The first strand ().

The third and final strand addresses issues of scaling up your emergent theory ().

Below is a more detailed outline of the contents of each chapter.

• introduces the purpose of the book, then gives a brief overview of GTM. It discusses the key features of GTM under four different headings Theory, GTM and the literature, Using GTM in the field, and Data analysis using GTM.
• gives some further background on GTM and how it has evolved into several different versions. This chapter considers some of the intellectual history of GTM. It also explores some myths about it that you may also encounter along the way.
• , where we look at coding in detail.
• too at types of data collection, the notion of reflexivity, the use of theoretical memos in the field and ethics.
• explains coding and conceptualisation in GTM, using two detailed worked examples. The chapter demonstrates open and selective coding through the two examples. It also discusses when to elevate an open code, and when to decide which codes are dimensions of other codes.

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