This study was aimed to present a model for social responsibility of audit firms using the grounded theory method. To this end, the components and dimensions of social responsibility model of audit firms were identified and explained. The research method was applied in terms of purpose, mixed (qualitative-quantitative)exploratoryin termsof datatype, anddescriptive-correlationalinterms of data c...

I n the introduction to this Handbook, James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium suggest that a social constructionist approach deals best with what people construct and how this social construction process unfolds. They argue that the constructionist vocabulary does not as readily address the why questions that characterize more positivistic inquiry. In their earlier methodological treatise, The ...

Use of the grounded theory research method (GTM) is increasing across many fields of inquiry. Understanding the GTM and how to apply it is therefore a key task for researchers examining the possibility of using this method in their research. Since its introduction by Glaser and Strauss in 1967, GTM has evolved into two major streams, and there has been a continual debate about the choice betwee...

During the last 30 years sociologists Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss have formulated and developed in great detail their grounded theory perspective on social science research. In their work they have consistently argued for the inductive discovery of theory grounded in systematically analyzed data. Their inductive perspective has stemmed in part from their dissatisfaction with the prevalent ...

this paper attempts to analyze the consequences of using facebook and how it affects iranian couples, especially where family privacy is concerned. to put it in other words, the paper offers an argument on the question of how facebook membership challenges stability of the family system in the iranian society.  a special focus will be laid on facebook and its effect on transforming social norms...

This study provides a framework and definition to the notion of talent management process and describes how it fits the human resources architecture of agricultural higher education system in Iran. This qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews for data collection and systematic grounded theory methods for data analysis. For this study, we selected and interviewed 15 expe...

This article presents Grounded Theory as an approach of data analysis in a qualitative study. Main principles Theory, stages development, and three phases analysis, such open coding, axial selective are discussed.