"Writing Up Qualitative Inductive Inquiry: Principal Malaises, and Some Remedies"

The merits of qualitative, inductive research in contributing to the understanding of management and organizational realities are increasingly vaunted, but such studies are still essentially reviewed by dominant positivist standards. This perturbs the manner in which qualitative scholars write up their theory-building process and, by that, the quality of their research. We present a reflection based on a broad review of ontological and...