Qualitative Inquiry in Management: Methodological Dilemmas and Concerns in Meta‐Analysis
本文认为质性研究对管理科学至关重要但未被充分利用，通过元研究聚合可产生更高阶知识。作者提出四种本体论视角下的实用方法，识别并解决理解、综述和聚合质性研究时的认识论、伦理和方法论困境。
We posit that qualitative inquiry is essential to management science but is insufficiently capitalized on and that, if aggregated through meta‐studies, such research could yield rich insight on emergent properties and enable the development of higher‐order knowledge and theory. We introduce a pragmatic approach along four ontological perspectives to conducting meta‐studies from qualitative inquiries. We identify principal epistemological, ethical and methodological concerns and dilemmas that occur in the understanding, review and aggregation of qualitative studies and propose concrete remedying heuristics.