Interpretive case studies in IS research: nature and method
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...Most mainstream IS journals now welcome interpretive research and significant groups of authors are working within the interpretive tradition (Walsham 1995a)....
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...1992; Orlikowski et al. 1991), journal contributions (Harvey and Myers 1995; Lee 1991; Walsham 1995a, 1995b), and a monograph (Walsham 1993) have addressed themselves to qualitative research and shown how the nature and purpose of interpretive research differs from positivist research (see also…...
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...Walsham argues that there are four types of generalizations from interpretive case studies: the development of concepts, the generation of theory, the drawing of specific implications, and the contribution of rich insight (Walsham 1995a)....
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...A brief description of the three research philosophies is given below, although we acknowledge that the distinctions themselves are often contentious, and some research papers may be more difficult to classify than others (Walsham 1995b)....
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...In recent years, interpretive research has emerged as an important strand in information systems research (Walsham 1995b)....
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...An example in IS is the analysis of how the interpretivist paradigm has emerged historically in contrast to positivism (Walsham 1995)....
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...Wood (2000) offers a detailed explanation of Hume’s problem of induction....
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...Based on Wood (2000). need an additional premise, such as [the] Uniformity of Nature assumption or: ‘The future will be like the past’,” where the result is Argument 1.2....
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...Based on Wood (2000)....
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...Ensuring that there is enough data is a precursor to credible analysis and reporting....
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...The three uses of theory in interpretive studies discussed above can be usefully compared with the 'grounded theory' approach of Glaser and Strauss (1967)....
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...Geertz (1973) gives a fascinating example of this involving Jews, Berbers and the French in Morocco in 1912....
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...Geertz (1973) gives...
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