Webcast Lecture Series
Qualitative Research for Maximum Impact
Dr. Kevin Corley
Imperial College London
January 31, 9:00 AM ET
Lecture Abstract
In working with and talking to other qualitative researchers, some of the most challenging issues and questions to arise revolve around how to develop meaningful theoretical insights from the empirical analysis of qualitative data. Part of the reason why these issues and questions are so challenging is because crafting meaningful theoretical insights involves intuition and humble confidence, two skills that can really only be built through experience. But it helps tremendously if that experience is born out of well-designed and rigorously executed qualitative research projects. To help scholars craft well-designed and rigorously executed projects, I have teamed up with Charlotte Cloutier and Ann Langley to write a book detailing our guidance on how to craft qualitative research for maximum impact. In this session, I will share our orienting framework and use it to explore some of the fundamental elements of developing rigorous yet relevant contributions in qualitative research.
Meet the Presenter
Kevin Corley (Ph.D., Penn State) is Professor and Department Head in the department of Management & Entrepreneurship in the Business School at Imperial College London. His expertise lies in the understanding of how individuals and organizations approach change, and how leaders can use times of uncertainty and ambiguity to the benefit of their organization and followers. He is widely published in the field’s top journals on issues related to organisational change, identity, and culture, as well as qualitative research methods and theory development. Kevin has won multiple professional awards, including most recently being named the 2022 Distinguished Scholar for the Management & Organizational Cognition division of the Academy of Management. He has served as an Associate Editor for qualitative research at Academy of Management Journal and is currently co-leading (with Tima Bansal) a special call for qualitative research at Journal of Management.
Kevin began his professorial career at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign as an assistant professor in 2002. He joined the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State Univ in 2005, ultimately achieving the position of Professor in 2014 until his departure in May 2022. Kevin is also a visiting scholar at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. (k.corley@imperial.ac.uk)
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