1University of New South Wales, Australia, dubravka@ unsw. edu. au 2City University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, isrobert@ cityu. edu. hk 3 University of New South Wales, Australia …

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 …

A conventional “trends” chapter on qualitative research in information systems (IS) would
review the state of the art (the methods and findings) of such research, laud its …

Since the Manchester conference on research methods in Information Systems (IS) more
than ten years ago, qualitative IS researchers have made great strides toward acceptance …

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 …

In this introductory chapter I set the stage for the remaining chapters by discussing factors
that influence the choice of qualitative methods for information systems research. In doing …

This book is about the use of qualitative methods in the conduct of information systems
research. As the title suggests, it is concerned both with trends in the choice of qualitative …

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 …

In the past two decades, the IS research community underwent an intensive debate and
fought hard to legitimise interpretive and qualitative research paradigms. Now that the war is …

Qualitative synthesis research is an approach that consolidates the output of different
qualitative studies to create new subject knowledge. Such work can help reveal more …