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2025 AOM Annual Meeting

RM

17410: How to Develop Theory-Data Fit on Silence in Qualitative Work?

Friday, July 25, 2025
11:15 - 12:45 CEST (GMT+2)
Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B4-m2
Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: International,Research
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With growing scholarly interest in qualitative research in management and organizational studies, a critical challenge lies in navigating through qualitative data pertaining to silence and the unspoken in interviews, or observations, or archival data. Even though there is scant yet relevant attention in the organizational and psychotherapy literatures, how qualitative researchers, especially early-career ones, should make sense of the type of data has yet to receive methodological exploration or discussions. In this Professional Development Workshop (PDW) at RM Division, we bring together worldwide qualitative scholars to share their experiences and insights into how they have handled and managed silence and the unspoken in organizational contexts. In this Professional Development Workshop (PDW) at the RM Division, we bring together a globally diverse group of qualitative scholars to share their experiences and insights on handling and managing silence and the unspoken in organizational contexts. In addition to a panel discussion facilitated by the organizers, participants will join roundtables and discuss how to develop a theory-data fit to analyze and theorize on silence in qualitative work. We aim to provide both theoretical and practical insights into being aware of and making good use of data on silence and the unspoken for interested qualitative researchers.