Cross-check for completeness: exploring a novel use of Leximancer in a Grounded Theory study
Cross-check for completeness: exploring a novel use of Leximancer in a Grounded Theory study
This paper investigates the potential for Leximancer software to actively support the Grounded Theory (GT) analyst in assessing the ‘completeness’ of their study. The case study takes an existing GT study and retrospectively analyzes the data with Leximancer. The Leximancer output showed encouraging similarities to the main themes emerging from the GT analysis; but not sufficiently at the selective coding level to justifiably claim a definitive cross-check for overall theoretical saturation. Whilst Leximancer is not found to be a substitute for the ‘hard labor’ of GT coding and theory development, it can provide a very useful, efficient and relatively impartial cross-check of completeness/saturation in the open (and possibly axial) coding stage(s) of a GT study. This automated post-analysis check of GT coding is a novel use of a CAQDAS package.
grounded theory, leximancer, software, theoretical saturation, CAQDAS, qualitative research
1029-1045
Harwood, I.A.
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Gapp, R.
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Stewart, H.
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2015
Harwood, I.A.
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Gapp, R.
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Stewart, H.
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Harwood, I.A., Gapp, R. and Stewart, H.
(2015)
Cross-check for completeness: exploring a novel use of Leximancer in a Grounded Theory study.
The Qualitative Report, 20 (7), .
Abstract
This paper investigates the potential for Leximancer software to actively support the Grounded Theory (GT) analyst in assessing the ‘completeness’ of their study. The case study takes an existing GT study and retrospectively analyzes the data with Leximancer. The Leximancer output showed encouraging similarities to the main themes emerging from the GT analysis; but not sufficiently at the selective coding level to justifiably claim a definitive cross-check for overall theoretical saturation. Whilst Leximancer is not found to be a substitute for the ‘hard labor’ of GT coding and theory development, it can provide a very useful, efficient and relatively impartial cross-check of completeness/saturation in the open (and possibly axial) coding stage(s) of a GT study. This automated post-analysis check of GT coding is a novel use of a CAQDAS package.
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Published date: 2015
Keywords:
grounded theory, leximancer, software, theoretical saturation, CAQDAS, qualitative research
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/378068
ISSN: 1052-0147
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