Researching Values Methodological Approaches for Understanding Values Work in Organisations and Leadership

This open access book presents new approaches for researching values as they are performed or materialized. Values have been an important topic in academic literature for a long time; they are at the core of institutional theories and are often connected to ideals in organisations or ways of valuing...

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Other Authors: Espedal, Gry (Editor), Jelstad Løvaas, Beate (Editor), Sirris, Stephen (Editor), Wæraas, Arild (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Researching values in leadership and organisation. Introduction
  • Part I: Methodological approaches to researching values
  • 2 Values at work: Mapping the field through the lens of methodological approaches
  • 3 Definitions as Initial and Final Point of Values Research? Searching for Mysteries in Research Projects about Values in Organisational and Leadership Studies
  • 4 Intentionality and agency in values work research
  • 5 Extending knowledge, improving practice, and refining values – research informed by the concept of phronesis
  • 6 Dilemmas and Craftsmanship Practices: Strategies for Empirically Uncovering Values and Value Conflicts
  • Part II: Methods for collecting and analysing data
  • 7 Research interview to investigate and co-create values
  • 8 Observation and Shadowing: Two Methods to Research Values and Values Work in Organisations and Leadership
  • 9 Thematic analysis: Making values emerge from texts
  • 10 Identifying values through discourse analysis
  • 11 A narrative approach to exploring values in organisations
  • 12 Researchers’ role reflexivity when studying values work
  • 13 Participant validation—A strategy to strengthen the trustworthiness of your study and address ethical concerns
  • Part III: Researching values through practical cases
  • 14 The ‘telos’ as a lens that illuminates values in practice
  • 15 Applying a qualitative case study approach to study values in public–private partnerships
  • 16 Values-Based Participatory Action Research in Development Ethics