Interpreting Interviews

Mats Alvesson

SAGE Publications, Nov 15, 2010 - Social Science - 176 pages

This text offers a critique of traditional interviewing practices and provides a framework for thinking about issues such as trustworthiness, identity, and language in a conceptual rather than technical context, allowing you to develop your own reflexive practice. The research interview is in with the brick and mortar of qualitative research, and is one of the routine methods of obtaining knowledge of individuals, groups, and organizations. Through the use of eight original metaphors drawing on trends in language, subject, and discourse, this cutting-edge text will encourage you to question the interpretive nature and theoretical underpinnings not only of your interview method, but of the knowledge which is conveyed through it.

About the author

Mats Alvesson holds a chair in the Business Administration department at Lund University in Sweden and is also part-time professor at University of Queensland Business School. He has done extensive research and published widely in the areas of qualitative and reflexive methodology, critical theory, organizational culture, knowledge work, identity in organizations, gender, organizational change, management consultancy etc. He has published 20 books with leading publishers and hundreds of articles, many of which are widely cited and used on higher levels in university education.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Interpreting Interviews
• Author: Mats Alvesson
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, 2010
• ISBN: 1857022580, 9781857022582
• Length: 176 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General