| Autor: |
Grodal, Stine, Krabbe, Anders Dahl, Bingham, Chris B., Tripsas, Mary, Zietsma, Charlene E. |
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Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings; 2021, Vol. 2021 Issue 1, p1-1, 1p |
| Abstrakt: |
The digitalization of textual data has spurred a dramatic growth in the availability of archival data. This new data captures both our ongoing digital life and stretches back in time as historical archives are digitalized and made available to the public. The availability of archival data raises new methodological opportunities and challenges for qualitative researchers who aim to generate organizational theory. Drawing on archival materials allows researchers to study the actual textual actions that actors--e.g. people, organizations or markets--make and to track them over time. This allows for textual ethnography where we (unlike in interviews but similar to traditional ethnography) are able to examine the interaction between actors in real time. Unlike both ethnography and interviews the use of archival data allows us to cross both time and space to study the unfolding of organizational phenomena not only across long time periods and in years passed but also across different spatial locations. Finally, archival data allows us to trace phenomena only manifest in aggregated patterns that is not readily observed with an ethnographic gaze. Yet, with these new empirical opportunities also come new challenges which arise both from the heterogeneity and extensiveness of the data. To rise to this challenge, this symposium brings together a set of scholars familiar with using archival data for qualitative analysis to discuss various methodological approaches for collecting and analyzing archival data and the consequences these methodological choices have for theory development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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