Open AccessQualitative Methods in IS/IT Research: Issues, Contributions and Challenges ? Forward
Author(s) -
Wasana Bandara,
Walter Fernández,
Bruce Rowlands
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
ajis. australasian journal of information systems/ajis. australian journal of information systems/australian journal of information systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1326-2238
pISSN - 1039-7841
DOI - 10.3127/ajis.v17i2.784
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , cover (algebra) , qualitative research , term (time) , epistemology , sociology , management science , computer science , engineering ethics , data science , social science , engineering , philosophy , physics , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics
In this special issue, we adopt Van Maanen's (1979: 520) definition of qualitative research as an umbrella term to cover an “array of interpretive techniques that can describe, decode, translate, and otherwise come to terms with the meaning, not the frequency, of certain more or less naturally occurring phenomena in the social world”