essential-guide-to-qualitative-in-organizational-research

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– CONTRIBUTORS –––––––––– xvSeonaidh McDonald is a Senior Research Fellow at Aberdeen Business School, RobertGordon University. She has two main fields of interest. The first centres on a range of closelyrelated strategic issues such as the management of change, organizational learning, innovationand knowledge management. She has an interest in studying the strategy making processesthemselves as well as their content and outcomes. Her other area of interest is wastemanagement. Her research in this field is also concerned with change, but focuses on thehousehold rather than the organization. This work aims to understand, and to increase, publicparticipation in domestic waste recycling schemes.Kate Mackenzie Davey is a Lecturer in Organizational Psychology at BirkbeckCollege,University of London. She has published work on socialization, identity, valuechange, culture and bullying at work. She is interested in discursive and multi-methodapproaches to organizational processes especially the role of marginality in theindividual–organizational relationship. Her current interests are in gender and perceptions oforganizational politics, consultancy and contract work and the role of communication inorganizations.Stephanie Morgan is currently an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University ofLondon, and Director of Crosslight IT Consulting Ltd. She has a BSc in psychology and anMSc in organizational behaviour, and received her PhD in organizational attachments in IToutsourcing at Birkbeck. Her current research interests and recent publications include issuesaround remote management, outsourcing transitions and technology related organizationalchange. Her focus on methodology includes the use of technology in research, longitudinalqualitative analysis, and the development of process models.Gill Musson is a Lecturer and Researcher in OB/HRM at Sheffield University ManagementSchool. She has published in the areas of managing change in clinical and manufacturingcontexts: the role of language in reflecting and structuring realities; and more recently on thedynamics of home based teleworking. She is co-author of Understanding Organizations ThroughLanguage (Sage, 2003), reflecting an overriding interest in language and meaning making andtheir role in organizational processes.Sara Nadin is a Research Fellow at Sheffield University Management School. She hasrecently completed her PhD, the focus of which was the psychological contract in smallbusinesses. Prior to commencing her PhD Sara worked on a number of projects concernedwith change management and innovation in SMEs. As well as her specialist interest in thestudy of small businesses, her other interests include job design and research methods.Nigel Nicholson is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School. Hehas been pioneering the application of evolutionary psychology to business in many writingsincluding ‘How hardwired is human behavior’ for the Harvard Business Review (1998) andin his book Managing the Human Animal (Texere, 2000). Recent work includes an in-depthstudy of risk and decision-making among traders in the City of London. His currentresearch focuses on leadership in family firms, and the role of personality in executivedevelopment.