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Moving Beyond “Jump in, Jump Out” Interviewing : Using More Complex Qualitative Methodologies to Build Deeper Theory in the Global South
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Research in the Sociology of Organizations ; 92
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There are increasingly robust academic conversations on both the opportunities to develop theory about necessity entrepreneurship (NE) in the Global South and how to do this. As insightful as these conversations are, they have largely overlooked an integral aspect of building theory: methods. Indeed, theory does not exist in isolation, but rather is developed through an iterative interplay with methods; complex theory is only possible when built through complex methods. Considering this, existing dominant approaches to studying NE in the Global South may be unable to realize many of the opportunities for developing theory. A common approach is “jump-in, jump-out” interviewing, where a researcher from the Global North spends little time on the ground, conducts a small number of interviews, promptly leaves, and conducts analysis in isolation. Moving past this approach requires a rethinking of methods in three main areas. First, rigorous contextual sensitization should occur before research design, not as part of data collection. Reading literature by local authors, engaging with social media, and reading local news are all viable strategies. Second, collecting richer and more varied data is vital to building the necessary empirical corpus. Single-wave interviewing is simply insufficient in many cases. Third, theory development would benefit from expanding analytical techniques beyond the “standard” type of grounded theory centered on data structures. Across these three areas, reflexivity and the surfacing of voices from the Global South are critical.
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Shulist, P 2025, Moving Beyond “Jump in, Jump Out” Interviewing : Using More Complex Qualitative Methodologies to Build Deeper Theory in the Global South. in Necessity Entrepreneurship: Getting Beyond the Binary. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, no. 92, Emerald, pp. 253-275. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20250000092019