There is a gap in the qualitative interviewing methodology practices and comprehensive advanced approaches causing a split between practice and theory, so called Grounded Theory (inductive positivism), and Action Research.

This book's alternative is quite simple; to do 'conversational interviewing' that notices several ontological and dialectical aspects of the interviewing situation. Understanding the dialectical opposition between retrospective sense-making, narrative interviewing questioning, and the content of living stories that are treated as unessential to narrative...

This edited book focuses on the organization and meaning of craft work in contemporary society. It considers how craft is related to place and the construction of a meaningful relationship with objects of consumption and explores the relationship to raw materials, the role of technology in craft work organizations, the relationship between the body, the crafted object and the mind, and the importance of skill, knowledge and learning in the making process. It raises questions about the role of craft in facing challenges of sustainability in an era of 'peak stuff' by...

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generates Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we are organized and how we influence each other and wield power. It is suggested that speaking is a major clue to organization and to the creation of new organizations. The task is to describe how speech-acting organizes. This book takes findings in the project's philosophy of collective intentions - its philosophy of society - into the field of empirical study of organization and politics.

The book investigates the...