Peter French wrote:
>
> I am currently doing my PhD in International Taxation using grounded theory.
>
> At this stage I am assembling 15-45 minute interviews and then will be
> entering the analysis phase.
>
> I have bookmarked the "Harald Klein" page of software choices for
> qualitative research, and would be interested in learning of experiences of
> others in this area.
>
> The typing up is painful, but quicker than using 'Via Voice' and then doing
> the apparently necessary and tedious corrections. However the downside of
> typing at the moment is a deep familiarity with the responses and then
> having to be careful in subsequent interviews to not direct or over prompt
> the respondents.
>
> Does everyone else enter the material into Word and then run the programs,
> or do you enter directly into some of the programs?
>
As I understand GT, it is not a problem to allow earlier findings to
influence later questions. In fact, to allow that influence is part of
the path to "theoretical saturation."
You might want to keep a dated journal of your musings and tentative
hypothesis. Then one way to write it up is as a journey of discovery:
"Informant A said that their experience with taxation was such and so.
That led me to ask Informant B if they had had the same experience. B
said that they had, and clarified my understanding by saying further..."
and so on. If you need a justification for this approach, you could
call it a *Bildungsreise,* a "scholarly, informative journey." Steinar
Kvale calls this one of the metaphors for qualitative research in his
*Interviews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing*
(1996, Sage: Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi), p. 4.
Birrell Walsh
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Birrell Walsh
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