Purpose This study aims to excoriate, define and delineate the main drivers of “change” in commercial construction projects generate guidelines on how minimise exposure associated adverse effects upon project stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach The research adopts mixed doctrines through a combination epistemological lenses, embracing two primary philosophical stances: interpretivism, ide...

This research explores the failure of competitively tendered projects in UK construction industry to procure most suited contractor(s) conduct works. Such work may have equal relevance for other developed nations globally. seeks teach clients and their representatives that “lowest price” does not mean “best value”, by presenting a case study successfully negotiated tender undertaken small-to-me...

Critical realism is emerging as a viable philosophical paradigm for conducting social science research, and has been proposed as an alternative to the more prevalent paradigms of positivism and interpretivism. Few papers, however, have offered clear guidance for applying this philosophy to actual research methodologies. Under critical realism, a causal explanation for a given phenomenon is infe...

disciplined inquiry about problems of organization and management requires decision to be taken about an appropriate research deign. in making such a decision, the researcher tacitly assumes a philosophical point of view or a research paradigm. there are four research paradigms which are the basis for the selection of research methodology and research methods. these paradigms include: a) positi...

The paper argues that CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis) provides an appropriate research framework for analyzing textbooks with regard to the identification of cultural depictions. By drawing some examples concerning the techniques used in textbook analysis, this paper has come to suggest that each technique reflects aspects of the three major paradigms such as positivism, critical theory and i...

In its quest for knowledge and understanding the Information Systems (IS) field has generally been torn between positivist and interpretivist approaches. However, in this paper an approach that accepts many of the underlying beliefs of both positivism and interpretivism is presented: the fictive approach. This blended approach – most comprehensively developed by Vaihinger reveals how much of wh...

This paper pursues two objectives. First it depicts the status of research philosophies of the IOS adoption field. Second, it gives an overview of the discussions within the field of IS about interrelating research philosophies and analyzes to which extent this has happened in the IOS adoption field thus far. In depicting the philosophical status of the field we apply Orlikowski and Baroudi’s (...