Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems

Edited by Robert M. Davison, Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for
Information Systems 1
Robert M. Davison

PART I HOW TO DO QUALITATIVE IS RESEARCH
2 Teaching qualitative research methods 10
Robert M. Davison, Barney Tan, Louie H.M. Wong and Evelyn Ng
3 Analyzing genres of discourse in IS research: an approach to
interrogating validity claims in IS scientific argumentation 30
Ojelanki Ngwenyama
4 Exploring IS phenomena through metaphors: insights from a study on
Facebook 59
Stephen Jackson and Niki Panteli
5 Knowledge acquisition for quality engagement 77
Robert M. Davison and Louie H.M. Wong
6 Understanding the digital experience: phenomenological IS research 88
Antonio Díaz Andrade, Angsana A. Techatassanasoontorn and Harminder Singh
7 Ethnographic evidence for practice 104
Richard L. Baskerville
8 How do researchers get close to the technology under investigation?
Insights, benefits and challenges 124
Stan Karanasios, Mira Slavova and Aljona Zorina

PART II METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN QUALITATIVE IS RESEARCH
9 Case study followed by action research: enhancing researcher and
practitioner outcomes 149
Julien Malaurent, Robert M. Davison, and Louie H.M. Wong
10 Critical IS research 163
Amber Young
11 Methodological practices for enacting “strong” sociomateriality in
qualitative IS research 182
Marko Niemimaa, Ulrike Schultze, and Gijs van den Heuvel
12 The nuts and bolts of qualitative comparative analysis 197
Federico Iannacci
13 Some principles for conducting phronetic IS research 222
Ojelanki Ngwenyama and Stefan Klein
14 Decolonial critical hermeneutics 240
Hameed Chughtai

PART III THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF QUALITATIVE IS RESEARCH
15 The shape of theory: an alternative take on theorizing based on the
nature of qualitative data 258
Evelyn Ng and Barney Tan
16 Dancing between theory and data: abductive reasoning 274
Antonio Díaz Andrade
17 Developing indigenous theory with qualitative IS research 288
Xiao Xiao and Barney Tan
18 Grounded theory in the era of datafication: a data journey perspective 306
Hamid Pousti, Henry Linger and Caitlin Doogan

PART IV FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR QUALITATIVE IS RESEARCH
19 Process oriented research: opening new horizons for IS research 325
Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic
20 Beyond the snapshot: reconceptualising human agency and context in
qualitative IS research 340
Matthew Jones and Yingqin Zheng
21 Analysis chaining: conceptual and empirical framing of digital traces 360
Aron Lindberg
22 Current trends and future opportunities in qualitative IS research 376
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Index 383