We have just completed a large grounded theory study. There are four theoretical codes, each with 3-5 focus codes and their representative quotes. We are trying to understand the best way to publish the findings.
Dear Anton Neville Isaacs
The researcher typically examines the data in the following manner in grounded theory-based analysis: discovering repeated themes by extensively evaluating the data; coding the emergent themes using keywords and phrases; organizing the codes into ideas in a hierarchical manner, and then classifying the concepts based on their relationships.
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Dr. Fatemeh Khozaei
Hello,
Probably you can look for an appropriate journal - and a proper audience - for each theoretical code and develop your argumentation for each one in the paper. For each work you have a general discussion of the literature then you explain the ratio of the grounded theory and then, in each paper, you present one theoretical code with its related sub-codes. In this way, you have a similar starting point but diverse theoretical evolution for each paper and you can disseminate your findings with diverse audiences.
Based on the information you gave, I think you should consider writing a book. There are article-length arguments and book-length arguments, and you may have developed a book-length argument. I am not sure that disassembling the argument would be the best solution.
I agree with Jochen Glaser, I have some (rather negative) experience with chopping an extensive analysis into papers. You probably invest a large amount of time and often reviewers/ readers can hardly follow your argument, plus you lose the integrative understanding and meaning of your study- it either flattens out or its becomes too abstract without the empirically argued ground. One solution can be to publish a book followed by commentary essays drawing on the study for journal representation and a larger audience or to continue your research based on and refering to the large study and by that integrating it in the journal discourses. I still try t figure out, if it is possibel to add the comprehenive analysis as additional material (which was not rejected yet), in that case you could trick your comprehensive analysis into a paper, but I am not sure if anyone will read it then- as we all know papers often are merely skimmed..then your beautiful analysis is burried as an appendix for good...
Thank you all for your suggestions. Yes, it is a thesis. We did consider a book. Although journal articles would be more easily accessible, there is a risk of losing the entire picture and a lot of good information when the findings are separated and word limits need to be maintained. The University of course, prefers us to publish articles rather than books. This is an interesting one...
Thank you all once again for your advice. It is much appreciated.
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