Information Systems and Qualitative Research

1 Information Systems and Qualitative Research.- One Overviewing and Assessing Qualitative IS Research.- 2 The qualitative difference in information systems research and practice.- 3 Crisis in the case study crisis: marginal diminishing returns to scale in the quantitative-qualitative research debate.- 4 A review on the use of action research in information systems studies.- 5 Panel — the impact of action research on information systems.- 6 Process models in information systems.- 7 Systems of meaning: ethnography as a methodology for the study of information technologies.- 8 Panel — assessing critical social theory research in information systems.- Two Interpretation and IS Requirements Definition.- 9 Examining project history narratives: an analytic approach.- 10 Exploring analyst-client communication: using grounded theory techniques to investigate interaction in information requirements gathering.- 11 Constituting users in requirements techniques.- Three Illustrating, Experiencing, and Being Critical in Ethnography.- 12 A discourse on ethnography.- 13 Achieving the research goal with qualitative methods: lessons learned along the way.- 14 Capturing complex, distributed activities: video-based interaction analysis as a component of workplace ethnography.- 15 Critical ethnography in information systems.- Four Interviewing and the Interviewer.- 16 Exploring a chairman of the board’s construction of organizational reality: the Colruyt case.- 17 Acquiring expert knowledge on IS function design.- Five The Social and Political Context of IS.- 18 Transitioning to client/server: using a temporal framework to study organizational change.- 19 Playing politics with e-mail: a longitudinal conflict-based analysis.- 20 Becoming part of the furniture: the institutionalizationof information systems.- Six Developments in Qualitative Methods.- 21 Value in triangulation: a comparison of two approaches for combining qualitative and quantitative methods.- 22 Qualitative research in information systems: time to be subjective?.- 23 Actor-network theory and IS research: current status and future prospects.- 24 Imagine: thought experiments in information systems research.- 25 Legal case analysis in IS research: failures in employing and outsourcing for IT professionals.- 26 Balancing interpretation and intervention in information systems research: the action case approach.- 27 Using case study research to build theories of IT implementation.- 28 Panel — qualitative research opportunities in health care.- Index of Contributors.