In recent years qualitative methodologies have been attracting significant and growing
interest as research tools. This text serves an integrated manual on how to conduct …

Empirical evidence suggests that the Information Systems field continues to be dominated
by the positivist paradigm and the use of quantitative methods. This is so despite the …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to advocate for a clearer and less fragmentary use of
qualitative research in the increasingly interdisciplinary research setting of information …

Qualitative research in the information systems (IS) discipline has come a long way, from
being dismissed as “exploratory research” or “preresearch,” not worthy of being featured in …

This paper investigates the concept of data collection in information systems qualitative
research. In this text, I replace the term “data collection” with “data generation” to emphasize …

The defining nature and characteristics of qualitative research are surveyed in this article,
which identifies key distinctions between method and methodology. The authors note that …

Qualitative research design can be complicated depending upon the level of experience a
researcher may have with a particular type of methodology. As researchers, many aspire to …

Abstract Research Methods: Information, Systems and Contexts is a wide-ranging guide to
theory and practice, aimed at researchers who need to pursue their own investigations …

The discipline of communication is marked by an increasing number of means of
understanding. Given the recent research explosion, specialization has accordingly become …

Up until the mid-1990s, for a significant proportion of mainstream IS scholars, particularly
those in North America and Asia, research meant quantitative research, and studies not …