PsyArXiv Preprints | Embracing Open Science in Qualitative Organizational Research: Extant Areas of Integration and Future Possibilities

Abstract:  Despite growing support for and interest in open science in leadership research, many popularly recommended practices have been primarily designed for post-positivist, quantitative research. We argue that qualitative researchers have largely been overlooked in guidance on participating in open science, but that the shared values among interpretivist qualitative research and open science offer many opportunities for converging practices. Central values of open science, including openness, integrity, and rigor, have long been espoused by qualitative researchers and enacted in practice. However, we argue that there is even more potential for qualitative researchers to participate in open science by enacting practices that have been appropriately designed or modified for qualitative methodologies. We present seven open science practices that we suggest that qualitative researchers adopt to further the openness, integrity, and rigor of our scholarship. We close by discussing the implications of these practices for researchers across methodologies and communities of practice.