This article is a slightly summarised version of an invited plenary at the 3rd Aegean Seminar which took place at the Greek island of Samos in July 1992. The original title was “An Interpretive Systemological View of the Issue: ‘Environmental Fluctuations and Cultural Change in Island Societies`.” It is an hermeneutical inquiry into the interpretive context that provides full meaning to the iss...

Field work is needed to bridge the gap which currently exists between information systems (IS) research and theory, and the practice of IS professionals in organisations. Examining how systems are developed and used, and the problems and concerns of IS professionals, provides the foundations for building understanding of IS practice. This paper examines some methodological issues raised by inte...

This study aims to determine what factors are needed for the competitiveness of Roti Janur SMEs in Mandonga District, Kendari City. Factors janur bread Mondonga sub-district, city, namely product excellence, innovation, and human resources using ISM method identify problems SMEs. Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) is a systematic application elementary graph theory such way that its theoret...

(2004). Using an interpretive research group to teach communication and understanding in undergraduate psychiatric/mental health nursing students. Abstract: An interpretive research group based in existential phenomenology is used to facilitate student learning about skills central to nursing-communicating, listening, and a genuine understanding of "the other"-in an undergraduate psychiatric-me...

Interpreters and just-in-time (JIT) compilers are ubiquitous in modern computer systems, making it important to have good program analyses for reasoning about such systems. Control dependence, which plays a fundamental role in a number of program analyses, is an important contender in this regard. Existing algorithms for (dynamic) control dependence analysis do not take into account some import...

Can the practice and science of medicine ever be reconciled? Several years ago, The Lancet introduced a series of occasional duets entitled, ambitiously, “science and practice.” The idea was to commission 2 writers to review a subject — for example, Parkinson’s disease, heart failure, chronic renal failure — in these constituent parts. Once the underlying biology and epidemiology were set out, ...

Interpreting results of qualitative research has been regarded by many as difficult fraught with accommodating multiple points of view in complex problem domains. It is recognised (Denzin & Lincoln, 2000) that there is no clear or straightforward solution to interpret qualitative research results. In this paper, sense-making conceptual models (SCMs) are explored as both a generic and an individ...

Discursive-based analysis of organizations is not new in the field of interpretive social studies. Since not long ago have information systems (IS) studies also shown a keen interest in discourse (Wynn et al, 2002). The IS field has grown significantly in its multiplicity that is echoed in the discourse, which policy makers and end-users use when they talk or write about IS. Understanding their...

We summarize the investigation reported in our papers 5], 6], 7], and 8], and describe the hitherto unpublished conclusion to the project. In particular, we outline the analytic technique we developed|Layered Formalism and Zooming|and apply it to the analysis of a class of stylized documents. We also describe and use a new kind of grammar, interpretive grammar, based upon the interpretive state...

User perceptions of e-business systems’ security are, at best, that such systems are not as secure as more traditional ways of doing business. As security is now considered to be so crucial to e-Business success, the question of how security requirements are identified and how users can become involved in identifying security requirements for their organisation has become all the more important...