My reflections on Chapters 1-5 of Rapley and Luff (2012) paper

The first five chapters of Replay's book was an easy read for me and actually answered to several of my questions about conducting qualitative research.
These include:
 - The book recommends researchers to taking field notes during recruitment of participants to be able to use these notes in the final research report.

- It was really interesting to me that the book says interview questions can be changed over the life-cycle of the project. I remember while I was conducting the interviews for my qualitative research, I was always concerned about asking the same questions from all the interviewees. May be my training in quantitative research has conditioned my mind to get used to consistency of methods, questions, etc.
- I also realized that when qualitative researchers talk about taking notes, these notes could include initial stages prior to recording, interview, etc. during the process and after it.
-  I also learnt that it's good to do some field work in the research site prior to starting any kind of recording, because that helps the researcher to get familiar with the research site and avoid any issues that might come up during the main recording.
- When author talks about transcript, it was interesting for me to know that as a qualitative researcher, I should consider transcripts as the secondary data source and always try to re-engage with my recording. I always thought that when transcripts are developed, there's no need to go back to the original recordings while apparently, this is not the case.
- Taking about  Luff & Heath paper, I became interested to know about the research in management that has sort of used video recording. To my surprise my search in Google Scholar didn't yield any management or entrepreneurship research in which data collection has been conducted through video recording. Even if that is not case, I think the number of management & entrepreneurship research will be very few which sets the ground to use this rich data collection method in this stream of research.



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