PURPOSE To critically examine ethical issues in qualitative research. ORGANIZING CONSTRUCT The ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and justice are guides for researchers to address initial and ongoing tensions between the needs and goals of the research and the rights of participants. METHODS Research literature, ethics literature, and researcher experiences. CONCLUSIONS Ethical ...

This discussion of data analysis in qualitative research addresses the question of how authors describe this aspect of their research. I suggest that the tradition of organization of research papers from quantitative research is not a good fit for writing qualitative research. I argue for less jargon and more detailed description, with the analytic process integrated into the findings and inter...

BACKGROUND A UK charity, Macmillan Cancer Support has funded a local intervention, whereby carers of people affected by cancer and other long-term conditions at end of life are offered a bespoke package of support. AIM This short report describes the qualitative experiences of carers in receipt of the intervention. DESIGN Qualitative research utilising in-depth interviews. Discussions were ...

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This study examines the similarities and d@erences of outsourcing strategies of medium-sized manufacturing firms in the U.S. and Japan. Analyses of the questionnaire data, obtained from 234 Japanese firms and 94 American firms showed that: (I) Japanese Jirms tended to use more process-oriented R&D outsourcing, while American firms tended to depend on result-oriented R&D outsourcing; (2) Japanes...

Comparative analysis on five technopoleis shows that there has been a major change in terms of roles of the central government and the local governments. The recent technopoleis are initiated by the local governments while the earlier ones are initiated by the central government. Also operation by the 3 sector is getting popular. This shift is well accepted by the central government. The govern...

A major issue in the current economic debate is related to the striking difference between Europe, Japan and US concerning the level and evolution of unemployment. This paper explores the micro determinants of these observed stylized facts. In a first part, a theoretical framework is presented allowing to address this comparative analysis. The starting point is the definition of different micro...

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This study proposes the use of a methodological approach in Dentistry that is also deployed in qualitative research: Grounded theory. The proposal is to use it whenever the intention is to understand phenomena or describe them from a subjective standpoint. Researchers are using the qualitative approach more and more often in health studies, and, in Dentistry, a methodological approach such as t...