In this paper, I am going to explore an other kind of research writing by sharing my journey as a PhD female student from non-Western background experiencing differently. Starting study within standard conventional methodology, shifted non-traditional mode doctoral called autoethnography. employ method inquiry (Richardson & St Pierre, 2005) where can center voice, write creatively and move ...

Despite a well-established tradition within the information systems discipline and wider management investigations, researchers are frequently required to remind if not educate reviewers as to how qualitative research should be evaluated. This paper reviews and discusses criteria that have been proposed for grounded theory, ethnographic, confessional, postmodern, and interpretive and positivist...

The visibility of discussion on research methods in the systems area has advanced a good deal in the past two decades. In part this has occurred concomitantly with theoretical developments in systems thinking itself, but a significant contribution has been made by the continual criticism and subversion of the positivist research orthodoxy by interpretative and other anti-positivist approaches. ...

In 1961 the German Sociological Association invited Karl Popper to give a lecture on the logic of the social sciences, and invited Theodor Adorno to offer a critical response. It was to be a battle of the titans of postwar sociology, and afterwards became known as the “Positivist dispute” (Positivismusstreit ) in German social theory. Yet from the beginning the debate went in an unexpected dire...

This paper is a sympathetic critique of the argument that Reichenbach develops in Chapter 2 of Experience and Prediction for the thesis that your sense experience justifies your belief in the existence of an external world. After discussing his attack on the positivist theory of meaning, I describe the probability ideas that Reichenbach presents. I argue that Reichenbach begins with an argument...

ABSTRACTThis study aims to investigate the dominance of research with paradigm positivism in accounting, especially related internal function audit. The dominant accounting date is positivist paradigm. In audit, all things are not only seen from facts that on surface and concluded directly existing data, but also must understand meaning contained it. Therefore, it necessary have another contrad...

In this paper I explore a positivist methodological tradition in early demand theory, as exemplified by several common traits that I draw from the works of V. Pareto, H. L. Moore and H. Schultz. Assuming a current approach to explanation in the social sciences, I will discuss the building of their various explanans, showing that the three authors agreed on two distinctive methodological feature...