Acknowledgments vii // Introduction: Not Another Book on Grounded Theory ix // part one Research and Research Methods // 1. Research: Why (Do) Research? 3 // 2. Research Methods 13 // part two The Grounded Theory Method in Practice // 3. 1967 And All That 63 // 4. The Grounded Theory Method: An Overview 83 // part three Grounded Theorizing: The Gerunds of the Grounded Theory Method // 5. Coding: Terminology and Clarification 117 // 6. An Example of Coding and a Coding Exercise 133 // 7. An Abbreviated Example: Research Pitching 141 // 8. Process and Procedure: Getting Started and Moving Forward 147 // 9. Coding Strategies: Tales from the Front Line 175 // 10. Reflecting and Recording: Memoing and Reflective Research 197 // 11. Moving On: Later Sampling, Coding, and Analyzing 217 // 12. Getting to an End-point: Theoretical Saturation 249 // 13. Abduction-No Longer an Alien Concept 265 // part four Grounded Theory-Themes and Variations // 14. A Grounded Theory of Grounded Theory Journal Articles 283 // 15. Another View of The Grounded Theory Method: Another Way of Modeling 299 // 16. It’s All in the Big Data: Data, Big Data, and the Grounded Theory Method 317 // 17. The Grounded Thee,, Method and Pragmatism: Instrumental Theorizing 335 // 18. Grounded Theory as a Guide to Good Research Practice: // A Method for Enacting Abstraction and Abduction 353 // 19. Four Accounts of Grounded Theorizing 365 // 20. Charles Darwin: The Survival of the Grounded Theorist 383 // References 389 // Index 401