The main implications of using an inductive analytical approach for the process of qualitative analysis are likely to be related to:

• managing and categorising a large number of code labels, which will probably emerge from the data that you collect;

• working with smaller rather than larger units of data;

• recognising significant themes and issues during early analysis to help you to consider where data collection should be focused in the future;

• recognising the relationships between categories and rearranging these into a hierarchical form, with the emergence of subcategories;

• seeking to verify apparent relationships against the actual data that you have collected;

• understanding how negative cases broaden (or threaten) your emerging explanation;

• recognising the relationships between the principal categories that have emerged from this grounded approach in order to develop an explanatory theory;

• being rigorous in your use of the procedures that are advocated in order to be able to produce a research report that contains findings that are sufficiently ‘grounded’ to substantiate the analysis or theory that you are seeking to advance.