Historical perspectives are only timidly entering the world of IS research compared to historical research in management or organization studies. If major IS outlets have already published history-oriented papers, the number of historical papers although increasing remains low. We carried out a thematic analysis of all papers on History and IS published between 1972 and 2009 indexed on ABI and ...

This paper examined six philosophical paradigms, namely positivism, interpretivism, post-positivism, pragmatism, post modernism and critical realism. The paradigms serve as the bases for knowledge management research practice. Basing on a review of literature drawing from tacit insights, reveals that positivist managers researchers tend to focus explicit while paying little attention knowledge....

Abstract This paper aims to explore and understand the digital divide in older adults when accepting using smart devices within an organization. Using in-depth single case study, is explored understood technology-mediated learning for devices; ie. tablet devices. The study based on a group of educated, Indian adult volunteers at local Punjabi radio station. A qualitative approach used data coll...

Research methodology is the procedural framework within which the research is conducted. This includes the overall approach to a problem that could be put into practice in a research process, from the theoretical underpinning to the collection and analysis of data. Choice of methodology depends on the primary drivers: topic to be researched and the specific research questions. Hence, methodolog...

What theories or concepts are most useful at explaining socio technical change? How can - or cannot - these be integrated? To provide an answer, this study presents the results from 35 semi-structured research interviews with social science experts who also shared more than two hundred articles, reports and books on the topic of the acceptance, adoption, use, or diffusion of technology. This ma...

This article discusses the undertaking of research using a constructivist philosophical framework and ethnographic techniques, which can include individual interviews, focus groups, observation, and questionnaires. It begins with a broad overview of social sciences research philosophy, discussing both positivism and interpretivism, before moving on to focus on the constructivist paradigm, which...

Research methods are "technique(s) for ... gathering data" (HARDING 1986) and are generally dichotomised into being either quantitative or qualitative. It has been argued that methodology has been gendered (OAKLEY 1997; 1998), with quantitative methods traditionally being associated with words such as positivism, scientific, objectivity, statistics and masculinity. In contrast, qualitative meth...

Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to an emerging debate centred on the ways in which knowledge management (KM) might be effectively researched and, in turn, how KM practice might be improved. Design/methodology/approach – Burrell and Morgan’s (1979) paradigms are used to set the scene and to highlight the changing focus in three closely related areas – research per se, the KM movement and...

Background This analysis is about practical living bioethics and how law, ethics sociology understand respect children’s consent to, or refusal of, elective heart surgery. Analysis of underlying theories influences will contrast legalistic with bioethics. In-depth philosophical compares social science traditions positivism, interpretivism, critical theory functionalism applies them to childhood...

Purpose The study explored the disparity between construction clients and contractors on what constitutes “client satisfaction”. Such is important because it can lead to different conclusions thus disagreement assessment of project success. Design/methodology/approach philosophical stance was interpretivism, qualitative methodology adopted. Employing purposive sampling, 30 interviews with anoth...