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Studying actions in context: a qualitative shadowing method for organizational research

Seonaidh McDonald

The Robert Gordon University, s.mcdonald{at}rgu.ac.uk

Shadowing is a qualitative research technique that has seldom been used and rarely been discussed critically in the social science literature. This article has pulled together all of the studies using shadowing as a research method and through reviewing these studies has developed a threefold classification of different modes of shadowing. This work provides a basis for a qualitative shadowing method to be defined, and its potential for a distinctive contribution to organizational research to be discussed, for the first time.

Key Words: literature review • organizational research • shadowing

Qualitative Research, Vol. 5, No. 4, 455-473 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1468794105056923
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