The balance between what we learn from research and what others have said about similar topics can pose dilemmas for qualitative researchers. How many citations are enough? How much allegiance do we owe to other scholars and how much to informants' lived experiences, our theoretical analyses, and the lessons we draw about methods and methodologies from our own experience as researchers? The var...

1.1. What is this course about? The foundations of differential geometry (= study of manifolds) rely on analysis in several variables as “local machinery”: many global theorems about manifolds are reduced down to statements about what happens in a local neighborhood, and then anaylsis is brought in to solve the local problem. Analogously, algebraic geometry uses commutative algebraic as its “lo...

In the rapidly changing field of information systems, every researcher faces important choices about what research topics to explore and how to pursue that research. This paper addresses these questions by summarizing a panel discussion at the 2001 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) annual meeting. The first part of this paper provides a framework explaining factors that can be used in selecting...