Qual+ x CARMA Course

Doing Process Research for Insight and Impact

This doctoral course, organized in close collaboration with CARMA, concentrates on process research and process theorizing. Led by Emerita Professor Ann Langley, the course will help participants explore the design, analysis, theorizing, visualization, and presentation of process research.

During the course, the following topics will be covered:

• The nature of process research and process research questions
• Choices and challenges in designing process studies
• Strategies for theorizing from process data
• Navigating the involvement paradox in process research
• Visualizing processes
• Writing up process research: unpacking a case history

When
November 12–14, 2026

Where
To be annouced

Course Credit
2 ECTS

Course Leader
Emerita Professor Ann Langley

Emerita Professor of Management
HEC Montréal

Distinguished Research Environment Professor
University of Warwick

Ann Langley is Emerita Professor of Management at HEC Montréal and Distinguished Research Environment Professor at the University of Warwick. Until August 2020, she held the Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings and was co-director of the Strategy as Practice Study Group at HEC Montréal.

She completed her undergraduate and master’s degrees in the United Kingdom and obtained her Ph.D. in Management from HEC Montréal in 1987, following several years of work in the private and public sectors as an analyst and consultant.

Her research focuses on strategic management processes and practices in pluralistic settings: organizational contexts in which objectives and values may be multiple and ambiguous, power and influence are shared among various stakeholders, and the knowledge required for decision-making is distributed across different people, levels, and positions.

Registration and Fees

Early registration

$200
Through September 1, 2026

Standard registration

$250
September 2–October 1, 2026

Late registration

$300
October 2–November 10, 2026

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