Does sample size matter in qualitative research?: A review of qualitative interviews in IS research
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...Nevertheless, claims of saturation were never substantiated in relation to procedures conducted in the study itself, endorsing similar observations in the literature [25, 30, 47]....
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...Other work has sought to examine practices of sample size reporting and sufficiency assessment across a range of disciplinary fields and research domains, from nutrition [34] and health education [32], to education and the health sciences [22, 27], information systems [30], organisation and workplace studies [33], human computer interaction [21], and accounting studies [24]....
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...In line with previous studies [22, 30, 33, 34] the findings demonstrate that reporting of sample size sufficiency is limited; just over 50% of articles in the BMJ and BJHP and 82% in the SHI did not provide any sample size justification....
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...On the basis of the researchers’ previous experience and the literature, [30, 31] we...
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...Providing a sample size justification was not related to the number of interviews conducted, but it was associated with the journal that the article was published in, indicating the influence of disciplinary or publishing norms, also reported in prior research [30]....
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...One multiple-case study cited Eisenhardt [10] in the selection...
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...One multiple-case study cited Eisenhardt [10] in the selection of ten cases; yet, provided no additional detail about reasons for selecting the number of interviews for each case [3]....
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...While it is true that many archival documents, observation, and other sources of data are included in qualitative studies, particularly cases, qualitative interviews are the primary data source in the vast majority of IS positivist cases studies, as confirmed by Dubé and Paré [9]....
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