Qualitative Inquiry in Management: Methodological Dilemmas and Concerns in Meta‐Analysis

We posit that qualitative inquiry is essential to management science but is insufficiently capitalized on and that, if aggregated through meta‐studies, such research could yield rich insight on emergent properties and enable the development of higher‐order knowledge and theory. We introduce a pragmatic approach along four ontological perspectives to conducting meta‐studies from qualitative inquiries. We identify principal epistemological,...