Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the imbalance between inductive and
deductive research in management and organizational studies and to suggest changes in …

Companies across industries are shifting toward a platform ecosystem strategy. By
leveraging cloud computing technologies, companies aim to benefit from collaboration with …

Critical realism (CR) is a useful philosophical framework for social science; however, little
guidance is available on which precise methods–including methods of data collection …

Grounded theory was first introduced more than 50 years ago, but researchers are often still
uncertain about how to implement it. This is not surprising, considering that even the two …

Grounded theory methodology (GTM), with its espoused goal of theory development of novel
phenomena, has found broad application in Information Systems (IS) research. To …

This bestselling textbook has been fully updated, and provides readers with a
comprehensive overview of methods for conducting business and management research …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how students perceive their future
careers and how university has prepared them to enter the global labor market; student …

We describe an actionable research approach for addressing current challenges to
theoretical advancement labeled theory elaboration. Theory elaboration is the process of …

Grounded Theory (GT) has proved an extremely useful research approach in several fields
including medical sociology, nursing, education and management theory. However, GT is a …

Disaster events threaten the lives, economies, and wellbeing of those they impact.
Understanding the role of emergent organizations in responding to suffering and building …