Breaking the Silence About Exiting Fieldwork: A Relational Approach and Its Implications For Theorizing

It is surprising that, to date, a discussion of exiting fieldwork is absent from the management and organization literature—an absence we believe is unjustified. We argue that analyzing exit from fieldwork is important for theorizing. We combine two streams of research—ethnography in the broader social sciences and business marketing on dissolving relationships—to propose a relational framework for conceptualizing and analyzing exit. The...