Abstract
This chapter examines an innovative form of data-gathering that brings together two of the greatest methodological challenges social scientists face: conducting classical immersion ethnography and gaining access to elites. The difficulties of accessing elites for research purposes have been well-documented (Conti and O’Neill 2007; Gilding 2010; Harrington 2003). There has been less scholarly discussion of the challenges posed by traditional ethnography, a method whose claim to scientific status is based on the length and depth of the investigator’s immersion in an organization or culture.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research : Innovative Pathways and Methods |
| Editors | Kimberly Elsbach, Roderick Kramer |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Pages | 134-142 |
| Chapter | 13 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781848725102 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315849072, 9781317908784 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |