KRZYSZTOF T. KONECKI is the chief of the Department of Sociology of Organization and Management at the University of Lodz, editor-in-chief of Qualitative Sociology Review, and president of the Polish Sociological Association. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association (ESA) and as the chair and vice-chair of the Qualitative Methods Network of ESA. He is a member of the Board of Qualitative Methods Research Network of the European Sociological Association and member of the board of the European Society for Study of Symbolic Interaction. He has published extensively on qualitative methods and grounded theory methodology and has done studies on symbolic interactions. His research interests include the sociology of organization and management, human and nonhuman animal interactions, the qualitative methodology of social research, visual grounded theory, contemplative inquiry, the sociological ethnography, and hatha yoga and contemporary forms of spirituality. He published papers and chapters in the books on qualitative methodology in Sage Publications Ltd. and Cambridge University Press, and in Symbolic Interaction.