selected readings
that have shaped our methodology

Alvesson, M. (1996). Leadership Studies: From Procedure and Abstraction to Reflexivity and Situation. Leadership Quarterly, 7(4), 455-485.

Clandinin, D. J. and Connelly F. M. (2000). Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Heron, J. and Reason, P. (2001). The Practice of Co-operative Inquiry: Research ‘with’ Rather than ‘on’ People. In Reason and Bradbury (Eds.), Handbook of Action Research (pp. 189-200). Sage Publications: London, pp. 189-200.

Jessor, R., Colby, A., & Shweder, R. (Eds.). (1996). Ethnography and Human Development: Context and meaning in social inquiry. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Riessman, C.K. (1993). Narrative Analysis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Reason, P., & Bradbury, H. (Eds.). (2001). Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Reason, P. (2000) Three Approaches to Participative Inquiry. In Denzin, N.K. and Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd Edition (pp. 324-339). Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.

Srivasta, S. (1990). Appreciative Management and Leadership: The Power of Positive Thought and Action in Organizations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Stringer, E. (1999). Action Research, 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Stringer, E. (1997). Community-Based Ethnography: Breaking traditional Boundaries of Research, Teaching and Learning. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Tierney, W. (1996). Leadership and Postmodernism: On Voice and the Qualitative Method. Leadership Quarterly, 7(3), 371-383.

Tierney, W. (1987). The Semiotic Aspects of Leadership: An Ethnographic Perspective. American Journal of Semiotics, 5(2), 223-250