Computer Aided/Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software in Management and Organizational Research

This paper analyses 128 journal articles, published in the field of management and organizations between 2011 and 2020, which articulated the use of CAQDAS programs in their data analysis. Our analysis of these articles revealed that scholars are using CAQDAS in many novel ways to support their data analysis process. Yet, many scholars tend to over-legitimize the role of CAQDAS in their study, without a detailed description of the CAQDAS techniques used in the data analysis. We provide examples and exemplars of CAQDAS explanations and point to the continued need to grow and refine CAQDAS terminology in order communicate our data analysis effectively and enable readers to both understand and learn from other researchers.