Purpose This purpose of this study is to understand how the spread of audit culture and the
related public sector reforms have affected Finnish universities' organization principles …

Mindfulness programs, and related practices of contemplation and spirituality, are a growing
trend in contemporary work organizations. Increasingly adopted into corporations …

In carrying out research, qualitative scholars routinely struggle with having to navigate
between planned and emergent research design strategies. Pressure from funders and …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct a general review of the ethnographic
method. It uses metaphors to read several pieces of ethnographic research and discuss the …

Over the last two decades, mindfulness has become popular in Western countries as part of
the well-being movement. The corporate world has taken notice and is now hailing the …

Reading Verbuyst and Galazka's (2023) call to arms to write about navigating failure in
ethnographical research reminded me of a participant in my study, Ram, describing a formal …

Little attention has been given to questions of blocked access in public administration
research. We draw on past scholarship on access: qualitative research accounts in public …

The conduct of qualitative research often rests on a fundamental condition: the
establishment of research access. Gaining quality research access is a challenge even at …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the author's research experiences in
northern Mozambique in order explore the multiplicity of gatekeeper relations that arose …

Purpose In 2014, an estimated 7000 skin cancer cases were attributed to occupational solar
ultraviolet (UV) exposure in Canada (CAREX Canada, 2015). A knowledge transfer and …