BACKGROUND Participatory approaches to qualitative research practice constantly change in response to evolving research environments. Researchers are increasingly encouraged to undertake secondary analysis of qualitative data, despite epistemological and ethical challenges. Interpretive focus groups can be described as a more participative method for groups to analyse qualitative data. OBJECT...

This paper describes and illustrates a symbolic interactionist approach to critical ethnographic research in organizations. Aneclectic approach to interpretive sociology for management accounting researchers is developed and explicated. Also, an integrated interpretive perspective is described for the study of issues of power and ideology. The method offers the potential for new and additional ...

In 2005, the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute published MIC interpretive criteria for 13 antimicrobial agents used for either therapy or prophylaxis of Neisseria meningitidis infections. The MIC method includes the use of lysed horse blood-supplemented Mueller-Hinton broth with incubation in 5% CO2 for 20 to 24 h. Since some clinical laboratories might prefer the option of disk diffu...

In Information Systems research there are a growing number of studies that must necessarily draw upon the contexts, experiences and narratives of practitioners. This calls for research approaches that are qualitative and may also be interpretive. These may include case studies or action research projects. For some researchers, particularly those with limited experience of interpretive qualitati...

Abstract IR’s visual turn has emphasised analysis over method, centring images of war and crisis. Meanwhile security studies centres great power politics moments rupture. Together, they reinforce a dominant image as spectacular. This article unites two ethnographic projects focused on everyday security: one examining landscapes in China, health at the UK border. Both found gap between what we s...

There has been an increase in recent years in the number of in-depth case studies which focus on human actions and interpretations surrounding the development and use of computer-based information systems (IS). This paper addresses philosophical and theoretical issues concerning the nature of such interpretive case studies, and methodological issues on the conduct and reporting of this type of ...