Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how “the visual” might be conceptualised more broadly as a useful development of qualitative methodologies for organizational research. The paper introduces the articles that form the basis of this special issue of QROM , including a review...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on Professor Lee D. Parker's article on photo-elicitation. Design/methodology/approach – Two exciting possibilities addressed in Parker's paper are discussed: the potential of archival photographs to transcend their status as...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a commentary on Professor Lee D. Parker's article on photo‐elicitation. Design/methodology/approach – Two exciting possibilities addressed in Parker's paper are discussed: the potential of archival photographs to transcend their status as...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities of incorporating such visual methods as photoelicitation and photovoice into qualitative research, in order to retrieve something that, as a result of particular group socialisation, has been hidden, unspoken of or...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore a visual method, snaplog (snapshots and logbooks) from a performativity theory approach. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses empirical examples from a three‐year qualitative research project where snaplogs are used as an...