Fitting Oval Pegs Into Round Holes
研究揭示了北美顶级组织与管理期刊对定性研究的实际评价标准，发现作者、评审者和比较评判者视角下存在三种出版张力，并用“圆钉适配椭圆孔”的隐喻来概括这些张力及应对方式。
A study of qualitative researchers who have submitted and/or published their research in top-tier North American organizational and management journals reveals the evaluative criteria-in-use at these journals. Specifically, when asked to take the perspective of an (a) author, (b) evaluator (reviewer or editor), and (c) judge of the comparisons between qualitative and quantitative research, three publication tensions were evident. The author offers the metaphor of ``fitting a round peg into an oval hole'' as a means of capturing these tensions and as a vehicle for organizing the various ways these tensions can be managed.