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Challenges and Strategies for the Reflexive Researcher Studying Elite Organizations

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Debates surrounding reflexivity—both as ethics, methods, and research practice—have overwhelmingly focused on weak and vulnerable populations and situations in which the researcher is assumed to be in the more powerful position (Shesterinina 2019, 190). In those contexts, ethically sound practices of do no harm have been amply discussed and the relevance of power imbalances acknowledged (Campbell 2017, 95). But how does all of it apply when the power differential is less clear, and it is the researcher who appears to be—prima facie—weak and vulnerable? Building on Eck and Lanigan’s “practical strategies for “doing” reflexivity” (this symposium), I focus on how to practice reflexivity at the interface between the researcher and their respondents. I do so by providing an illustration from an elite context in which the power differential between the researcher and the respondent is not as clear-cut. I find that even when the researcher seems more vulnerable, they retain some power, which needs to be used wisely and ethically, relying on their moral compass.
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hal-04643070 , version 1 (10-07-2024)

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Chiara Ruffa. Challenges and Strategies for the Reflexive Researcher Studying Elite Organizations. Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, 2024, 22 (1), pp.23-30. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.11506790⟩. ⟨hal-04643070⟩
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