BUSINESS RESEARCH :   QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Library Resources and Information

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Qualitative Research Group

Books, E-books and DVDs

Use Voyager the Library catalogue, to find books, journals and videos held in the University of Auckland library system. It may be best to begin with a Guided Keyword search rather than a Subject Heading search, unless you know the exact structure of the subject heading. 

Suggested subject headings in Voyager: 
qualitative research,  research design, research ethics, research methodology, sampling, methodology, interviews, informed consent, confidentiality, field work (educational method), observation (educational method), questionnaires, surveys.

Also check Te Puna the New Zealand National Bibliographic Database and other Library catalogues for more titles that can be requested through the Library Interloan system. 

Journals

A selected list of journals that focus on or publish qualitative research. 

• Accounting, organizations and society
• Action research international
• American behavioral scientist 
• Applied marketing research
• Educational researcher
• Emergence : a journal of complexity issues in organizational management
• FQS : Forum qualitative social research  
• Industrial marketing management
• International journal of information management
• International journal of market research
• International journal of qualitative methods 
• International journal of qualitative studies in education
• International journal of research in marketing
• International journal of social research methodology 
• International review of retail, distribution and consumer research
• Journal of advertising
• Journal of applied behavioral science
• Journal of business and technical communication
• Journal of business research 
• Journal of consumer research
• Journal of international consumer marketing
• Journal of international marketing and marketing research
• Journal of marketing 
• Journal of marketing research
• Journal of popular culture
• Journal of retailing
• Journal of social studies research
• Journal of targeting, measurement and analysis for marketing
• Marketing intelligence & planning
• Qualitative health research 
• Qualitative inquiry
• Qualitative market research
• Qualitative report
• Qualitative research: QR 
• Qualitative research in psychology 
• Quality & quantity
• Research in consumer behavior
• Review of marketing research
• Sharpening the marketing edge
• Social science research
• Studies in qualitative methodology
• Systemic practice and action research

Databases for articles on qualitative research

For a full list of databases, A-Z and by subject, see Library databases. 

• EbscoHost : A set of databases comprising mostly full-text periodical collections, with an emphasis on peer-reviewed journals. Major components are Academic Search Premier with over 4,600 full-text journals, and Business Source Premier with nearly 7,800 full-text journals, and the smaller, more specialised full-text databases are also useful for qualitative research.

• Emerald : Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext provides access to the full text of over 100 journals published by the MCB University Press. All journals are peer reviewed and are aimed at both academic researchers and practitioners. 

• Informit (formerly AUSTROM) : A suite of more than 80 Australian bibliographic databases, which can be searched separately or together. 

• Project Muse : Database of current international full text serials covering the humanities and social sciences. 

• ProQuest : Contains more than 7,400 titles of which some 4,000 are in full text. All are accessible through the ProQuest interface and can be searched individually or simultaneously with other ProQuest 5000 databases.

• Sage Full Text Collections : Contains collections of full-text journals published by Sage on the CSA Illumina platform. Collections cover  journals in Communication Studies, Education, Management and Organization, Politics and International Relations, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies and Planning.

• ScienceDirect : Contains the full text of around 1400 journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Also includes abstracting and indexing databases with over 12.5 million records.

• Scopus: Includes millions of items from over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from 4,000 publishers, many in full text.  Also indexes over 200 million web sources, including 12.7 million patents. There is a link to any post-1995 citations from each individual item or reference.

• Web of Science : Multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information, comprising Science Citation Index (coverage is 1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).

Theses and dissertations

Search Theses & Dissertations on Voyager for University of Auckland PhD, Masters, and Honours theses and dissertations.

Databases for finding theses

• Te Puna : the National Bibliographic Database, produced by the National Library of New Zealand, has records for New Zealand and some international theses and dissertations.

• EconLit : searches can be limited to dissertations.

• Australasian digital theses program  : ADT provides access to digital versions of theses produced by postgraduate research students at Australian Universities. 

• Digital Dissertations : indexes, abstracts and often has the full text of theses (mainly PhD) from about 1,000 universities worldwide (but with a US focus). Indexed from 1861, abstracts from 1980, full text from 1996.

• Index to theses : rom UK universities. Most of the recent theses have abstracts but there is no full text access.

• DiVA portal: Academic archive online  : theses from Scandinavian universities

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations : NDLTD international listing of electronic theses and disserations (ETDs).

• Theses Canada : online catalogue of Canadian theses from 1965 onwards, with full-text access from 1998 onwards.

• Cybertesis : portal to thousands of full-text theses world-wide but especially from Latin American universities.

• Digital library archives : electronic dissertations and theses from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

• PhDdata : a developing site with just a few thousand theses, but it has a database of doctoral dissertations in progress around the world.

• Dissertation.com : commercial publisher of theses. 

• Union List of Higher Degree Theses in New Zealand Libraries : printed list of theses from 1910-1999.

Conceptual frameworks

General 

• Anfara, V.A., Jr. & N. T. Mertz (eds). (c2006). Theoretical frameworks in qualitative research. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications.
• Denzin, N.K. & Y. S. Lincoln (eds) (2005). The SAGE handbook of qualitative research. 3rd ed.Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications.
• Hesse-Biber, S.N. & P. Leavy (eds). (c2006). Emergent methods in social research. Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications. 
• Schram, Thomas H. (c2006). Conceptualizing and proposing qualitative research. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall. 
• Wertz, F. (2011).Five ways of doing qualitative analysis. New York : Guildford Press.

Critical theory

• Denzin, Norman K. and Y.S. Lincoln (eds). (2005) The SAGE handbook of qualitative research. (3rd ed.) Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications
• Research Centre for Qualitative Research, Subjectivity and Critical Theory  Manchester Metropolitan University.  Development of  innovative empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of subjectivity

Grounded theory

• Birks, M. (2011).Grounded theory : a practical guide London : Sage Publications. 
• Charmaz, K. (2006). Constructing grounded theory : a practical guide through qualitative analysis. London : Sage Pulbications.
• Glaser, B.G. (2005). The grounded theory perspective III : theoretical coding. Mill Valley, Calif. : Sociology Press.

Phenomenology / Phenomenography

• Bonk, T. (2008).Underdetermination [electronic resource] : an essay on evidence and the limits of natural knowledge. New York : Springer

Hermeneutics

• Fairfiled, P. (2011)Education, dialogue and hermeneutics[electronic resource]. New York : Continuum International

Humanism

• Law, S. (2011).Humanism a very short introduction. Oxford : Oxford University Press
• Perez Tomero, J. M. (2010).Media literacy and new humanism. Moscow : UNESCO

Research methodology

• Myers, Michael. (1997).  Qualitative Research in Information Systems. updated and revised in 2004.

Using Qualitative Research Methods.  Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, Boston, MA.

Action research

• Jean McNiff, J. & J.Whitehead. (2006). All you need to know about action research. London : SAGE Publications.
• Bridget Somekh, B. (2006). Action research : a methodology for change and development. Maidenhead : Open University Press.
• Action Research Resources  (Southern Cross Univ.)

Oral history

• Kelin, D.A. (c2005). To feel as our ancestors did : collecting and performing oral histories. Portsmouth, NH : Heineman.
• Vansina, J. (2006). Oral tradition : a study in historical methodology. Translated from the French by H.M. Wright ; with a new introduction by Selma Leydesdorff and Elizabeth Tonkin. New Brunswick, N.J. : Aldine Transaction. 

Oral History Society (UK)

Oral History Association(US) 

International Oral History Assocation

H-Oralhist : a network for scholars and professionals active in studies related to oral history.

Case study

• Naumes, W. & M. J. Naumes. (2006). The art & craft of case writing. 2nd ed. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe.

• Stake, R. E. (2006). Multiple case study analysis. New York ; London : Guilford. 

• Yin, R. K. (2003). Case study research : design and methods. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications.

Case studies (UoA)

Preparing an effective case analysis (South-Western College)

Ethnography / Ethnology

• Lassiter, L.E. (2005). The Chicago guide to collaborative ethnography. University of Chicago Press. 
• Mariampolski, H. (2006). Ethnography for marketers : a guide to consumer immersion. Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications. 
• Smith, L. T. (1998). Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples. New York : Zed Books; Dunedin : University of Otago Press.
• Troman, G, B. Jeffrey, & G. Walford. (eds) (2005). Methodological issues and practices in ethnography. Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI. 
• Genzuk, M. (1999) (Reprinted 2003) A Synthesis of ethnographic research . In: Effective Strategies for English Language Acquisition: A Curriculum Guide for the Development of Teachers, Grades Kindergarten through Eight. Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitian Project/ARCO Foundation. Los Angeles.  This is an overview. 

Fieldwork

• Wolcott, H.F. (2005). The Art of fieldwork. 2nd ed. Walnut Creek, CA : Altamira Press.

Native enquiry

• Phelan, J. & P.J. Rabinowitz. (eds) (2005). A Companion to narrative theory. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Interviewing  

• Seidman, I. (2006) Interviewing as qualitative research : a guide for researchers in education and the social sciences. 3rd ed. New York : Teachers College Press.

• McCulloch, G. (2004). Documentary research in education, history, and the social sciences.  New York : RoutledgeFalmer.

Content analysis

• Franzosi, R. (2004) From words to numbers : narrative, data and social science  Cambridge, UK ; : Cambridge University Press.

• Riffe, D., S. Lacy, F.G. Fico (2005) Analyzing media messages : using quantitative content analysis in research. 2nd ed. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum. 

Surveys and questionnaires

• Flick, Uwe. (2006) An introduction to qualitative research.  (3rd ed) London : Sage Publications.  

• Patton, Michael Quinn. (c2002) Qualitative research & evaluation methods. (3rd ed). Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications

Research ethics

• Tolich, Martin, (2001) Research ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand : concepts, practice, critique. Auckland, N.Z. : Longman

• New Zealand. Ministry of Social Development, Centre for Social Research and Evaluation ⁼ Te Pokapü Rangahau Arotake Hapori. (2005). Guidelines for research and evaluation with Maori  [Wellington, N.Z.] 

Data analysis and research software

• Argyrous, George. (2011). Statistics for research : with a guide to SPSS. 3rd ed. London : Sage Publications  

Selected websites

• Framing for research ethics. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (UK)
• Google Scholar : conduct keyword searching of full-text journal articles in selected subjects from Project Muse, JSTOR  and many other online platforms and publishers. Also searches academic websites and full-text Google Print books. Includes records for articles and books cited in these sources which aren't online and has a complex algorithm for ranking results according to the number of citations. Many full-text publishers are not searched by Google Scholar, notably Elsevier, but it will rapidly find many articles, websites and books on most topics.
• Association for Qualitative Research (Australia)
• Association for Qualitative Research (UK): focus on market research and qualitative data analysis software 
• International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (University of Alberta) : resource page with useful links 
• Qualitative Research Websites (the Qualitative Report) : extensive A-Z list of links  
• Qualitative Research Journals (St Louis University, Qualitative Research Committee): list includes journals that focus on qualitative research as well as journals receptive to publishing qualitative research 

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 Last updated: 9 February, 2012