Capturing emotions in qualitative strategic organization research
探讨了在战略组织研究中如何通过定性方法捕捉情绪,回顾了组织过程、制度过程和战略制定三个领域的研究,并提供了编码资源和指南,帮助研究者应对方法论挑战。
This essay offers insight into methods for qualitatively capturing emotions in strategic organization research, a theme that has attracted increasing interest in the literature, but that raises methodological challenges. We review how researchers have examined emotions in the following three domains of strategic organization research—organizational processes, institutional processes, and strategizing activities. We discuss the ontological assumptions about emotion in each of these areas, and explain how researchers in each area examine particular aspects of the multi-dimensional phenomenon of emotion. We identify specific challenges in capturing emotions in each area, as well as the strategies that researchers use to address them. We outline a repertoire of coding resources and guidelines for the convenient use of future researchers. Finally, we evaluate the strengths and limits of each approach, and identify avenues for future research.