Adapting organizational ethnography during a crisis practical lessons from research in a pediatric emergency department Virginia Rosales

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosales, Virginia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergencies--Research--Québec (Province)--Case studies.

Emergencies.

Emergency management--Québec (Province)--Case studies.

Emergency management.

Ethnology--Research--Québec (Province)--Methodology--Case studies.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

SAGE research methods cases

Place of Publication:

SAGE Publications Ltd, 2026.

London SAGE Publications Ltd 2025

Summary:

This case study is based on an organizational ethnography conducted in a pediatric emergency department in Quebec, Canada, originally designed to explore how healthcare professionals managed patient flow. The outbreak of COVID-19 disrupted the research plan, requiring multiple adaptations to both design and methodology. The case details how the researcher navigated repeated access suspensions, strict PPE protocols, communication barriers, and personal vulnerability, and how these challenges reshaped the project's focus and data collection practices. Instead of abandoning the study's core aims, the researcher reframed the project around embodied reflexivity and emotional labor in organizational life during crisis. Drawing from real-time field adjustments, the case explores how memory-based journaling, peer debriefing, and iterative reframing transformed emotional responses into generative methodological tools. It demonstrates how embodied and emotional experiences, often considered distractions, can instead serve as valuable data points and guide adaptive research strategies. Readers will learn how to design for flexibility in volatile field contexts, integrate emotional reflexivity into ethnographic practice, and transform disruptions into insight. The case offers concrete strategies for managing researcher well-being, preserving ethical integrity, and maintaining analytic depth under rapidly changing conditions. It encourages emerging researchers to see vulnerability not as a liability, but as a resource for deepening field engagement and methodological innovation

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ISBN:

9781036242831

1036242838

OCLC:

1565875619

Publisher Number:

T300754