Based on a recently completed major study of an emerging business practice in the area of information systems management, this paper explains and discusses several important aspects of using the “Glaserian” approach to grounded theory. Grounded theory is an effective approach to produce rigorous research that is simultaneously relevant to business and management theory development and to profes...

Literature reviews are complex, time-consuming undertakings. Most research methodologies are deductive and require the researcher to commence with a review to inform the study and formulate the research question. On the other hand the grounded theory method is inductive, ending with a theory rather than beginning with a hypothesis, and literature in these studies is typically used as a comparat...

The visibility of discussion on research methods in the systems area has advanced a good deal in the past two decades. In part this has occurred concomitantly with theoretical developments in systems thinking itself, but a significant contribution has been made by the continual criticism and subversion of the positivist research orthodoxy by interpretative and other anti-positivist approaches. ...

This paper explores the differences and similarities that may exist in respect of using the interview method in phenomenological and grounded theory methodologies. Baker et al. set out to differentiate between method in grounded theory and phenomenology and concluded that it was essential to ensure that the method matches the research question being asked. However, the paper, whilst clear in in...