Abstract
<p>The open science movement has gained considerable momentum in advancing the transparency, credibility, and rigor of scientific research across disciplines. Within this broader landscape, leadership scholars have played a prominent role in developing formal guidance to strengthen open science practices in organizational research. To date, most recommendations have focused on quantitative research rooted in post-positivist traditions. However, qualitative scholars working from interpretivist perspectives share core values such as openness, integrity, and reproducibility with open science and enact them through practices grounded in inductive, context-sensitive inquiry. Bringing these two conversations into closer dialogue offers meaningful opportunities for both domains. Leadership research provides a particularly generative context for this exchange, as qualitative methods have influenced the field by illuminating the socially constructed and value-laden nature of leading. Drawing on these contributions, we present a set of 12 established practices through which interpretivist qualitative researchers have historically embodied open science values in leadership research, followed by six additional practices that can further enhance the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of interpretivist scholarship. By articulating how open science principles can be enacted in qualitative paradigms, we show that leadership scholars are well-positioned to extend the open science conversation across methodologies and communities of practice.</p>