Title | You scratch my back, and I scratch yours: Bartering for qualitative data |
---|
Authors | Chitac, I., Knowles, D. and Dhaliwal, S. |
---|
Type | Conference paper |
---|
Abstract | Recruiting research participants has been one of the significant challenges faced by qualitative researchers. Barter gained momentum during the Covid pandemic across a broad spectrum of professionals, including scholars searching to recruit research participants, despite being surrounded by ethical concerns of coercion or undue influence. This reflective paper created a barter reflective and ethical protocol showing how bartering created the entrepreneurial opportunity for 16 migrant entrepreneurs to exchange an average of 60 minutes of their time for participating in a qualitative interview with an average of 2.25 hrs (145 minutes) of business counselling and translation services delivered by the researcher. This paper contributes to the methodological practice of bartering. It argues that bartering is an ethical and efficient research practice in need of a code of ethics and protocol and should not be dismissed as ethically suspect until substantial evidence is brought forward |
---|
Keywords | barter |
---|
| qualitative |
---|
| incentives |
---|
| recruitment |
---|
| interviewees |
---|
Year | 2021 |
---|
Conference | British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference 2021 |
---|
Publisher | British Academy of Management |
---|
Publisher's version | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
---|
Publication dates |
---|
Published | 02 Sep 2021 |
---|
Book title | British Academy of Management 2021 Conference Proceedings |
---|
ISBN | 9780995641341 |
---|