The Varieties of Grounded Theory explores the range and depth of grounded theory methodology, and the ways in which discussions in the field have developed and expanded in recent years.

In this SAGE Swift, Anthony Bryant provides a jargon-free overview of grounded theory terminology, whilst examining the impact of recent technological and theoretical advances on how it is currently practiced. Increasingly popular outside of its original settings, grounded theory is now a core method for business & management, criminology, politics, geography and psychology. This book provides a global interdisciplinary perspective on the method′s utility today, and complements The SAGE Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory (April 2019).

Tony Bryant′s book offers a fascinating guide to the past, present and future of Grounded Theory in the age of CAQDAS and big data. Engagingly written with new and provocative arguments, it is an essential resource for students and researchers.

-- David Silverman

Antony Bryant provides a state-of-the-art overview that highlights the variety of contemporary issues shaping GTM. It is a useful benchmark for people writing dissertations, and a way for experienced GT practitioners to freshen their understanding of this continuously evolving methodology.

-- Vivian B. Martin

Antony Bryant is currently Professor of Informatics at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK.   He has written and taught extensively on research methods, with a particular interest in qualitative research methods, and the Grounded Theory Method in particular.  His book Grounded Theory and Grounded Theorizing: Pragmatism in Research Practice was recently published by Oxford University Press (2017).  He is Senior Editor of The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (SAGE, 2007) and The Sage Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory – both co-edited with Kathy Charmaz (SAGE, 2019).   He has supervised over 50 doctoral students, and examined many others, in topics including formal specification of software systems, development of quality and maturity frameworks, new forms of business modelling, and various aspects of e-government and e-democracy. He is currently working with Professor Frank Land, who worked on the first commercial computer (LEO 1951), and was also the first UK Professor of Information Systems, on a series of ‘conversations’ planned for publication that will cover issues in the development and impact of computer technology since the 1950s.