Janice M. Morse is Distinguished Professor and Barnes Presidential Chair at the College of Nursing, University of Utah, USA.

Barbara J. Bowers is Associate Dean for Research, the Helen Denne Schulte Professor, the Charlotte Jane and Ralph A. Rodefer Chair, and director of the Center for Excellence in Long-Term Care at the School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Kathy Charmaz was Professor Emerita of Sociology and Director of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University, USA. She passed away in July 2020.

Adele E. Clarke is Professor Emerita of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Juliet Corbin is a Senior Scientist at the International Institute of Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, Canada.

Caroline Jane Porr is Associate Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty of Nursing, Canada.

Phyllis Noerager Stern held faculty positions at California State University, Hayward, University of California, San Francisco, Northwestern State University and was Professor and Director of Dalhousie University School of Nursing in Halifax, Canada. She passed away in May 2014.

Section I: Introduction 1. The Maturation of Grounded Theory; Section II: Straussian Grounded Theory 2. Strauss's Grounded Theory 3. Exemplar: The Nurse as Advocate: The Sessler Branden Advocacy Theory (SBAT); Section III: Glaserian Grounded Theory 4. Glaserian Grounded Theory 5. Exemplar using Glaserian Grounded Theory: Building on "Grab", attending to "Fit", and Being Prepared to "Modify" how Grounded Theory "Works" to Guide Health Interventions of Abused Women; Section IV: Dimensional Analysis 6. Dimensional Analysis 7. Exemplar using Dimensional Analysis: Developing the Green House Nursing Care Team: Variations on Development and Implementation; Section V: Constructivist Grounded Theory 8. The Genesis, Grounds, and Growth of Constructivist Grounded Theory 9. Exemplar using Constructionist Grounded Theory: Preserving Self: Theorizing the Social and Psychological Processes of Living with Parkinson Disease; Section VI: Situational Analysis 10. From Grounded Theory to Situational Analysis: What's New? Why? How? 11. Exemplar using Situational Analysis: "Situating Knowledge"; Section VII: What's Next? 12. The Challenges to and Future(s) of Grounded Theory