How to cite non-English text?

Does anyone know how to cite non-English text?
I mean, how can I provide own translation of non-English text?

I have found that Author A used a block quote to cite text in a Swedish article by Author B. Provided text by Author A was in English. This indicates that the author A translated Swedish text written by Author B. No indication of translation was given.

I think this is a matter of validation.

I was thinking to use Author A to mention what Author B said. This is possible by the use of a secondary citation. However, secondary citation needs to me mimimal. The best way is to translate Author B's work by myself. But I will become the same as Author A. No validation.

Data Collection... Ooops!

As an academic researcher, I experienced a disaster.

Yesterday, I went into an organisation "to discuss a data collection process". That was my plan. However, a manager suddenly started to tell stories. It was formal because the time and date were arranged in advance. It supposed to be semi-structured with open questions but turned out to be unstructured. I did not have time to ask if I could record his voice. Holly #$%&!! I decided not to stop him and write down his talk.

The manager was so enthsiastic and supportive. But he just kept going his talk. It was around for 45 minutes. He already answered more than half of questions I prepared (but I did not show him). After he finished his talk, I said what I wanted for my research. He said he will organise another time for me. Recording should be no problem... but next time.

Then, we had a company tour. The manager show me around, explained and talked his concerns. Again, it was not all recorded. It was all informal, unstractured interviews... No, it was not. It was a narrative or story.

Hey, ethonographers! How can you guys do observation and interviews at once? It was so hard for me to talk with the managers while looking around the site. I was lucky because my supervisors were with me. They listened to the manager. I could write down some things. But I missed some part of his talk when my eyes were on some places.

You can say, "it should be recorded". Nah... it is easy to say, but hard to do in the noisy plant. I can guarantee that recording does not work in such an environment. It is physically and technically impossible unless I take a journalist approach (that means my research is not be academic any more).

My eyes can look at only one thing at a time.
My hands can write down only one thing at a time.
My ears can listen to only one thing at a time.

I could not listen to the manager's talk and the sound in the plant (it is important thing for my research) at once. While I wrote down the feature of the plant, I could not write down what the manager said. How could researchers in the pre-technology-age manage and accomplish such tough task... without recording devices? Although those divices were available, how can we record the sounds of more than two places at once?

Incorporating interviews (conversations) into participant observation is technically impossible. They need to be seperated, but they never can independently occur in reality.

Anyway, I have got some documents as well. Other materials are also coming soon. Next time I will organise another interviews, another site observation with photo-taking and photo-interviews.

I have a lot of data but I feel like I did not get any.

The Methodology Chapter

It has finally been done...

1. Intorduction
2. The nature of management research
3. Research orientation: nominarist ontology + anti-positivist epistemology
4. Theoretical perspective: interpretivism, symbolic interactionism
5. Methodology: case study
6. Method: multiple methods
7. Issues on Case Study
8. Conclusion

My supervisor who recently submitted his own PhD thesis separated the "Research Design" part from the Methodology chapter. I follow this format at this stage.

Now, I can move onto writing Chapter 2: Literature Review. The reason for writing my thesis in reversed way is for quality assurance and improvement of consistency. I have already done my draft on this chapter. Thus, it is not actually "writing". Rather, it is at the revising stage.

Then, I will write Chapter 1: Introduction. I know this is the most critical part. I have started writing this chapter at the early stage then soon realised it is impossible to be completed until I finish Literature review and Methodology chapters. In qualitative research, it is very risky to have a priori assumptions, models, theories, and so forth. I have to write the Chapter 1: Introduction using the past tense anyway. It is impossible to write anything using the past tense because I have not done anything yet. I could write only one section, "Background of this research".

Tomorrow, I will visit an organisation to discuss about my plan and arrange a schedule for interviwing.