According to conventional wisdom, the Supreme Court is presently embroiled in an interpretive conflict between textualists, on the one hand, who believe that “the Constitution, properly understood, requires judges to treat the clear import of an enacted text as conclusive, even when the text fits poorly with its apparent background purposes,” 1 and purposivists (or more precisely, “strong purpo...

This paper discusses how an interpretive theory of action was explored and developed through iterative cycles of grounded theory generation. We establish our motivation for employing the grounded theory method in an area that is overflowing with theories of learning, then move on to the practicalities of generating an interpretive grounded theory by following the "vapor trails" left by online l...

Decompiling low-level code to a high-level intermediate representation facilitates the development of analyzers, model checkers, etc. which reason about properties of the low-level code (e.g., bytecode, .NET). Interpretive decompilation consists in partially evaluating an interpreter for the low-level language (written in the high-level language) w.r.t. the code to be decompiled. There have bee...

The Rationale The term 'interpretive' in the discussion of sociological methods is the most common translation of the German word 'verstehen,' but the German term is also translated as 'understanding'. There are many discussions and disputes over the translation of words between languages. What can be said about the meaning of interpretive method in sociology can be seen in discussions and disp...

in regard to different structure of factors affective to personnel productivity in different organizations, this research is performed with the purpose of designing and fitness of conceptual model of personnel productivity using interpretive structure modeling in ferdowsi university of mashhad. the survey method and researcher-made questionaire was used for data collection in this research. the...

This article discusses the conduct and evaluation of interpretive research in information systems. While the conventions for evaluating information systems case studies conducted according to the natural science model of social science are now widely accepted, this is not the case for interpretive field studies. A set of principles for the conduct and evaluation of interpretive field research i...