BACKGROUND Determining the credibility of qualitative research findings remains a contested area and leaves the way open for additional theoretical and methodological discussion. AIMS In this paper we focus on audit trails and confirmability, within the context of 'expert' qualitative researchers. Having outlined the audit trail process, we develop existing arguments about the 'expert' qualit...

This study aimed to describe the process of mentoring doctoral students for qualitative research in Japanese graduate programs in nursing. Nine experienced faculty-seven nurse researchers and two sociologists-were interviewed. Participants were asked about their process of mentoring students for qualitative nursing dissertations. Data analysis was conducted using a qualitative descriptive metho...

The proportion of publications of qualitative research in mainstream psychology journals is small. Thus, in terms of this important criterion, despite its recent rapid growth, qualitative research is marginalized in psychology. The author suggests that contributing to this situation is the lack of a coherent and unifying methodology of qualitative research methods that elucidates their credibil...

International comparative studies constitute a highly valuable contribution to public policy research. Analysing different policy designs offers not only a mean of knowing the phenomenon itself but also gives us insightful clues on how to improve existing practices. Although much of the work carried out in this realm relies on quantitative appraisal of the data contained in international databa...

This study in progress paper describes a research program studying the role of ERP and BI competency centers (CC) in a range of firms from six countries in Europe, North America and Austral-Asia. The goal of this research is to understand the relative contribution of CC in improving IS and business unit performance and to map structures and models of extant successful competency centers worldwi...

• Research method originated in clinical medicine (the case history, i.e. the patient’s personal history (idiographic method) • Description of the symptoms, the diagnosis, the treatment and eventual outcome (descriptive method) but also in newer research explanatory case studies • Uses the person’s own memories, the memories of friends and relatives, or records of various types such as diaries,...

• Research method originated in clinical medicine (the case history, i.e. the patient’s personal history (idiographic method) • Description of the symptoms, the diagnosis, the treatment and eventual outcome (descriptive method) but also in newer research explanatory case studies • Uses the person’s own memories, the memories of friends and relatives, or records of various types such as diaries,...