How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation

David Boje, Aalborg University, Denmark and Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University and Grace Ann Rosile, Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University, US

• Contents: 1. Introduction: Brief History, Topics Addressed, How to Use this Book, and Glossary of Terms 2. Dialogical and Dialectical conversational interviews: Using Self-Correcting AID phases and 4 Tests with the CIW case example 3. Choosing your research question: and using the storytelling paradigm theories including narrative retrospective, antenarrative prospective, counternarrative, living story, ensemble storytelling, and Grounded Theory 4. Storytelling Paradigm Method, including types of induction, narrative retrospective, antenarrative prospective, integrative qualitative-quantitative methods, narrative inquiry, and multiplicities 5. Storytelling Paradigm Praxes 6. Why Karl Popper is rolling over in his grave 7. Writing Dialectical/Dialogical and Big/little Storytelling Science Conclusions 8. Managing the oral examination and post-submission process Index

'Over several decades David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile have been characterized as the theorists' theorists, the methodologists' methodologists and the practitioners' practitioners. Their latest book - How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation - lives up to that characterization. The book introduces their latest iteration and development of storytelling as ''conversational storytelling interviewing'', which, they contend, is an alternative to semi-structured interviewing. With its readability and clear, detailed enunciation, this book is destined to be a major influence on a new generation of scholars.'--Albert J. Mills, Saint Mary's University, Canada