Volume 5, Issue no. 2/3, March/June 2006

GT Review vol. 5 no. 2-3 Volume 5, Issue no. 2/3, March/June 2006  Editorial Judith A. Holton, Ph.D. The Roots of Grounded Theory Barney G. Glaser, Ph.D., Hon. Ph.D. From a keynote presentation given to the 3rd International Qualitative Research Convention, Johor Bahru, Malaysia 23rd August 2005.   Grappling with the Literature in a Grounded Theory Study Antoinette M. McCallin, Ph.D., RN Student researchers often struggle to understand how to use literature in a grounded theory study where timing and knowing what to read are critical. Despite substantive theoretical...

Volume 5, issue no.1, November 2005

                                                            GT Review vol5 no1 Volume 5, Issue no. 1, November 2005  Staying Open: The use of theoretical codes in grounded theory Barney G. Glaser with the assistance of Judith Holton Keeping My Ways of Being: Middle-aged women dealing with the passage through menopause   Helene Ekstrom, Johanna Esseveld & Brigitta Hovelius Weathering Change: Coping in a context of pervasive change  Michael A. Raffanti Achieving Rigour and Relevance in Information Systems Studies: Using grounded theory to investigate organizational...

Attraction, Autonomy, and Reciprocity in...

Barney G. Glaser, Ph.D., Hon. Ph.D. Abstract This paper explores the basis of work integration between the scientist and his supervisor in an organization devoted to basic research. 2 The analysis uses a three-dimensional model of role integration: 1) mutual attractiveness, why they get together; 2) reciprocity; and 3) autonomy, how they stabilize working together. The recognized competence in research of both parties is shown to be a source of mutual attraction, reciprocity in work and maintenance of autonomy. Introduction Shepard (1956) has noted that the “objective...

The Local-Cosmopolitan Scientist

Barney G. Glaser, Ph.D., Hon. Ph.D. [This paper was originally published in The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. LXIX, No. 3, November 1963] In contrast to previous discussions in the literature treating cosmopolitan and local as two distinct groups of scientists, this paperi demonstrates the notion of cosmopolitan and local as a dual orientation of highly motivated scientists. This dual orientation is derived from institutional motivation, which is a determinant of both high quality basic research and accomplishment of non-research organizational activities. The dual...

The Literature Review in Classic Grounde...

Ólavur Christiansen, Ph.D. The place and purpose of the literature review in a Classic (Glaserian) Grounded Theory (CGT) study is to situate the research outcome within the body of previous knowledge, and thus to assess its position and place within the main body of relevant literature. The literature comparison is conceptual, i.e. the focus is on the comparison of concepts. The literature comparison is not contextual, i.e., it is not based on the origin of the data. This, of course, means that the literature comparison has to be made in a selective manner. It is obvious...