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Studying actions in context: a qualitative shadowing method for organizational research
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Shadowing is a qualitative research technique that has seldom been used and rarely been discussed critically in the social science literature. This article has pulled together all of the studies using shadowing as a research method and through reviewing these studies has developed a threefold classification of different modes of shadowing. This work provides a basis for a qualitative shadowing method to be defined, and its potential for a distinctive contribution to organizational research to be discussed, for the first time.
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- Authors
- McDonald, S.
- Venue
- Qualitative Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2005-11
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 455-473
- ISSN
- 1468-7941 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-3109
- OpenAlex
- W2063502596
- Cited by
- 732
- References
- 27
- FWCI
- 14.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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