TY - JOUR
T1 - Studying actions in context
T2 - A qualitative shadowing method for organizational research
AU - McDonald, Seonaidh
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Shadowing is a qualitative research technique that has seldom been used and rarely been discussed critically in the social science literature. This article has pulled together all of the studies using shadowing as a research method and through reviewing these studies has developed a threefold classification of different modes of shadowing. This work provides a basis for a qualitative shadowing method to be defined, and its potential for a distinctive contribution to organizational research to be discussed, for the first time.
AB - Shadowing is a qualitative research technique that has seldom been used and rarely been discussed critically in the social science literature. This article has pulled together all of the studies using shadowing as a research method and through reviewing these studies has developed a threefold classification of different modes of shadowing. This work provides a basis for a qualitative shadowing method to be defined, and its potential for a distinctive contribution to organizational research to be discussed, for the first time.
KW - Literature review
KW - Organizational research
KW - Shadowing
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U2 - 10.1177/1468794105056923
DO - 10.1177/1468794105056923
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:27744459284
SN - 1468-7941
VL - 5
SP - 455
EP - 473
JO - Qualitative Research
JF - Qualitative Research
IS - 4
ER -