A Positivist Methodology for Archival Case Studies in Information Systems Research
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چکیده
Few guidelines are available about how a case researcher may collect data about past or historical phenomena. A methodology for case studies based on archival data would be useful for taking advantage of a wealth of evidence (e.g., corporate documents such as memoranda and e-mail, as well as popular press) that occurs naturally in organizational and societal experiences of dealing with information technology. The objective in this paper is to offer an archival case study methodology sufficiently rigorous to be deemed scientific.
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