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Join us as we celebrate the 10th Annual Qualitative Analysis Boot Camp
at the 2026 Academy of Management Annual Meetings
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Qualitative Analysis Boot Camp X: Coding Traditions and Practices
When: Friday, July 31st, 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Where: Sheraton, Freedom Ballroom - Mezzanine Level
To celebrate our tenth year of offering the Qualitative Boot Camp at the Academy of Management meetings, we will return to our early roots focused on coding traditions and practices. This session focuses specifically on different ways of coding data and the implications of this for the analytic process. This session is sponsored by the SAP Interest Group, Research Methods Division, and Organization and Management Theory Division.
The PDW will run for 3 hours, structured in two parts:
PART I – Coding Approaches: Plenary discussion [Open, no preregistration needed]
Panel of experienced qualitative scholars reflecting upon their coding experiences during qualitative data analysis to enable the publication of exploratory, theory building qualitative research. The panel members will reflect upon their practice of coding, draw comparisons between the various different approaches to coding and the outcomes they produce, and respond to audience questions.
● Karen Locke – coding in the middle (driving analytic iteration)
● Emily Heaphy – interpretive coding
● Christina Hymer – grounded theory coding
● Gail Fairhurst – coding tensions/contradictions/paradoxes
● Anna Kim – contextualized coding of visual data
● Paula Jarzabkowski – process coding
● Michael G. Pratt – ethnographic coding
● Tammar B. Zilber - narrative analysis
● Rebecca Bednarek - processual-based coding (coding practices in action)
● Jane Lê - thematic coding
[We will have a short break after the plenary session to set up the tables and have seats marked for registered participants.]
PART II – Roundtable exercise/discussion of different coding approaches [Preregistration required]
Each panelist plus Hans Hansen and Anne Smith will manage a discussion at a roundtable with an interactive exercise and discussion. At the end of this PDW, we will have report outs from different tables in order to share learning and insights.
The roundtable section of this Qualitative Bootcamp PDW (PART II) is a registration-only event that is usually oversubscribed, requiring a wait list. We want to ensure that each interested person who registers will have a seat! On the sign-up form, you will also indicate a table topic that interests you, but there is no guarantee that you will have a seat at that table (but we will try!).
There are only 180 seats available; after this, we will start a wait list.
Registration for the round table will be strictly enforced.
Here is a registration link: https://forms.gle/5oQWP9fbA6oUZ69D7
If any questions, please contact PDW Rehab Eklhiyat: relkhaya@vols.utk.edu
Or organizers Anne Smith (asmith51@utk.edu) or Jane Lê (jane.le@whu.edu )
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Anne Smith
Professor
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Knoxville TN
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