Qualitative research interviews

Qualitative research interviews.

After presenting a brief overview of the complexity of the qualitative interviewing process used by psychotherapy researchers, the authors discuss some of the major ideas that psychotherapy researchers using such interviews must consider both before and during the interview process. They then offer thoughts regarding approaches to strengthen qualitative interviews themselves.

DOES SAMPLE SIzE MATTER IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH?: A REVIEW OF QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS IN IS RESEARCH

This study examines 83 IS qualitative studies in leading IS journals for the following purposes: (a) identifying the extent to which IS qualitative studies employ best practices of justifying sample size; (b) identifying optimal ranges of interviews for various types of qualitative research; and (c) identifying the extent to which cultural factors (such as journal of publication, number of auth...

“Placing” Interviews: Location and Scales of Power in Qualitative Research*

For qualitative researchers, selecting appropriate sites in which to conduct interviews may seem to be a relatively simple research design issue. In fact it is a complicated decision with wide-reaching implications. In this paper, we argue that the interview site itself embodies and constitutes multiple scales of spatial relations and meaning, which construct the power and positionality of part...

Qualitative telephone interviews: Strategies for success

Modellierung statt Interviews? Eine 'neue' qualitative Erhebungsmethode

Vor dem Hintergrund empirischer Forschungsmethoden wird eine ‚neue’ Form einer Erhebungsmethode dargestellt und reflektiert: die grafische Modellierung (GM), die bei der Gestaltung von informationstechnischen Systemen (z.B. für Workflow-Management-Systeme, komplexe Webanwendungen) eingesetzt wird. Ihre Relevanz als ein qualitatives Erhebungsinstrument zur Informationserfassung wird jedoch unter...