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English Podcast starts at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast starts at 00:18:39Hindi Podcast starts at 00:26:44🎙️ Welcome back, knowledge navigators, to another episode of your favorite academic playground – Revise and Resubmit!✨ And this is your special weekend dose: Weekend Classics – where timeless academic gems get the spotlight they truly deserve.📚 Today, we're dusting off a cornerstone of qualitative research – a paper that didn’t just add to the conversation... it changed the conversation.💡 The title?“Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research: Notes on the Gioia Methodology.”🖋️ Authored by Dennis A. Gioia, Kevin G. Corley, and Aimee L. Hamilton,📖 Published in Organizational Research Methods – yes, an ABDC A★ journal,🗓️ Dropped into our intellectual ecosystem in July 2012, courtesy of SAGE Publications.This isn’t just a research article — it’s a blueprint.It asks, What if qualitative research could be just as rigorous as its quantitative cousin?It answers, Let’s create a structure — not to restrain creativity, but to elevate it.So we dive into the Gioia Methodology, a systematic yet soulful journey from the messy poetry of informant voices to the polished architecture of grounded theory.🧠 First-order concepts.🔍 Second-order themes.🔗 Aggregate dimensions.🎯 And ultimately — a theory that breathes, moves, and matters.📈 The authors aren’t just telling us how to do it — they’re showing us why it matters. Because when we take qualitative rigor seriously, we make room for discovery, for emergence, and for impact that doesn't just tick a methodological box — but opens up a whole new dialogue.🧭 So here’s the curious question for today:In a world obsessed with numbers, how do we convince the skeptics that stories — structured well — can be just as scientific? 🤔👏 Big thanks to the brilliant authors — Dennis A. Gioia, Kevin G. Corley, and Aimee L. Hamilton — and to SAGE Publications for giving this methodology the platform it deserved.🎧 If you enjoyed this academic jam session, hit that Subscribe button on Spotify 🟢, check out more on our YouTube channel Weekend Researcher 📺, or tune in on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts 🍏🎙️.📌 Because every weekend deserves a classic, and every classic deserves a second look.See you next time on Revise and Resubmit — where research never retires! 💥ReferenceGioia, D. A., Corley, K. G., & Hamilton, A. L. (2012). Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research: Notes on the Gioia Methodology. Organizational Research Methods, 16(1), 15-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428112452151 Youtube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherSupport us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher
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