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dc.contributor.authorAldaheri, N
dc.contributor.authorGuzman, G
dc.contributor.authorStewart, H
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-16T00:20:43Z
dc.date.available2020-04-16T00:20:43Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.isbn9781912764204
dc.identifier.issn2049-0968
dc.identifier.doi10.34190/RM.19.046
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/393102
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this paper is to explore and reflect on the fieldwork dilemmas of an early career researcher in conducting management qualitative research in a nursing-hospital context. The complexity of fieldwork dilemmas, especially issues of nursing-hospital contextual factors and identities, as well as how they were negotiated to gain and maintain fieldwork entry and information access is also discussed. Drawing on the most uncertain fieldwork moments that are derived from 22,936 words of field notes collected during a prolonged period of fieldwork, as well as a researcher's retrospective sense of fieldwork experience, author will describe and analyse fieldwork dilemmas. Through employing the lens of reflexivity and the notion of “activating the hyphen” between nursing-hospital insiders, research informants and the researcher, the most uncertain fieldwork moments and their criticality in gaining and maintaining fieldwork entry and information access are selected and categorized into three interrelated tales: confronting official layers of gatekeepers, confronting hesitancy and finding insider roles. Fieldwork dilemmas of the management qualitative research in a nursing-hospital context mainly arise from complex combinations of nursing-hospital contextual factors and multiple identity boundaries and perceptions between the researched nursing-hospital settings, nurse informants and the researcher. In addition to the multiple identity boundaries and perceptions, some constraints and opportunities were experienced with respect to fieldwork entry and information access. The fieldwork accounts provided explore and reflect upon the complicity of fieldwork dilemmas when conducting management qualitative research in a nursing-hospital context, specifically when fundamental differences between the researcher and research informants take place. The practical means described to negotiate contextual factors and multiple identity perceptions will be valuable to early career researchers, especially those preparing for field experiences in nursing-hospital contexts for the first time.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherAcademic Conferences and Publishing International
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename18th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM 2019)
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleProceedings of the 18th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2019-06-20
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2019-06-21
dc.relation.ispartoflocationJohannesburg, South Africa
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom25
dc.relation.ispartofpageto33
dc.relation.ispartofvolume2019-June
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBusiness systems in context
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman resources and industrial relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchStrategy, management and organisational behaviour
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBusiness systems in context not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3503
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3505
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3507
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode350399
dc.titleTales of the unknown and entanglement: An early career researcher's qualitative immersive fieldwork experience in a nursing-hospital context
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE1 - Conferences
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAldaheri, N; Guzman, G; Stewart, H, Tales of the unknown and entanglement: An early career researcher's qualitative immersive fieldwork experience in a nursing-hospital context, Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies, 2019, 2019-June, pp. 25-33
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gro.griffith.authorCarrillo Guzman, Gustavo A.


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