Qualitative Research Forum
The BI Qualitative Research Forum serves as a network where researchers can meet, share expertise, learn new things, and support early career scholars and PhD students who want to embrace the same methodological interest.
Centres, groups and other initiatives
Participation is open to everybody interested in the topic and doing qualitative research is not pre-requisite for attendance. You are very welcome to attend physically (dates and location indicated above) or, if availible, join via the stream option.
Past events
2025
- 25 April: "One-day BI/NHH Qualitative Research Day" in Bergen. More information will come.
2024
- 26 April: One-day BI/NHH Qualitative Research Day. Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Research Methods.
- 12 March: Using Quotes to Present Claims: Practices for the Writing Stages of Qualitative Research (Seminar) by Professor Kevin Rockmann, George Mason University.
- 20 February: Revise & Resubmit Workshop (Workshop). Help a colleague who received a revise & resubmit decision to revise, improve and publish the paper.
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12 November: “Conceptualizing and operationalizing context in qualitative research”
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5 December: “Abduction in qualitative research”
2023
Fall 2023
- Peer-assist session: what is my theoretical contribution? (Workshop)
Davide Nicolini
7 December - Storytelling with Qualitative Data (Seminar)
Professor Shaz Ansari, Judge Business School, Cambridge University
24 November - Revise & Resubmit Workshop (Workshop)
19 October - Comparative Case Studies (virtual event)
Professor Pinar Ozcan, Saïd Business School, Oxford University
5 October
Spring 2023
- (Re)interpreting social interaction 'data': A mode-enhanced transcribing process
Qian Li, Dundee University and Warwick Business School
16 March - How to publish from problem-driven research?
Eric Breit, BI Norwegian Business School
13 April - Visualizing Qualitative Research
Keynote speakers: Davide Ravasi (UCL), Helene Colman (BI) and Davide Nicolini (BI/WBS)
Organizing committee: Vidya Oruganti, NHH, Inger Stensaker, NHH, Renate Kratochvil, BI, & Davide Nicolini, BI/WBS
5 May 2023 - Using diaries in qualitative research
Ingrid Erickson, Syracuse University
15 June
2022
Fall 2022
- Working with Archival Data
Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School. 24.November - How to write process papers?
Ann Langley, HEC Montreal.
24 October - Coding and categorizing
Stine Grodal, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University.
29 September - Reflexivity and Reflexive Practice
Paul Hibbert, University of St. Andrews
7 September
Spring 2022
- Qualitative process and practice research in strategy. A one-day community-building gathering
6 May
- The tumult over transparency: Decoupling transparency from replication in establishing trustworthy qualitative research, Richard Whittington, Saïd Business School, Oxford University.
- Collaborating with firms as part of qualitative research.Inger Stensaker, NHH, and Martin Friesl, University of Bamberg & NHH - Writing Persuasive Qualitative Research
Ann Langley, HEC Montreal.
17 March - Trends in theory and theorizing in management and organizational research, Joep Cornelissen.
31 January
2021
Fall 2021
- Ethnographic fieldwork, data analyses, and narrative syntheses
Benedicte Brøgger, BI Norwegian Business School.
2 December - Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Santi Furnari, Bayes Business School.
14 October - All Information Systems Theory Is Grounded Theory
Natalia Levina, New York University Stern School of Business.
9 September
Spring 2021
- Toward a more dynamic view of coding & iterating in research
Karen Golden-Biddle, Questrom School of Business at Boston University.
8 April - Publishing qualitative research in top management journals: an editor’s view
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Cambridge Judge Business School.
6 May - The teaching of the other: Ethical vulnerability and generous reciprocity in the research process
Arne Carlsen, BI Norwegian Business School.
17 June