Qualitative Research in Information Systems : A Reader

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Overview of Qualitative Research -- 1 - An Introduction to Qualitative Research in Information Systems -- 2 - Choosing Appropriate Information Systems Research Methodologies -- 3 - Power, Politics, and MIS Implementation -- Part II: Philosophical Perspectives -- 4 - Studying Information Technology in Organizations: Research Approaches and Assumptions -- 5 - The Case Research Strategy in Studies of Information Systems -- 6 - Interpretive Case Studies in IS Research: Nature and Method -- 7 - The Critical Social Theory Approach to Information Systems: Problems and Challenges -- 8 - A Critical Perspective on Action Research as a Method for Information Systems Research -- 9 - A Scientific Methodology for MIS Case Studies -- 10 - Scholarship and Practice: The Contribution of Ethnographic Research Methods to Bridging the Gap -- 11 - CASE Tools as Organizational Change: Investigating Incremental and RadicalChanges in Systems Development -- Part IV: Modes of Analysing and Interpreting Qualitative Data -- 12 - Information System Use as a Hermeneutic Process -- 13 - Symbolism and Information Systems Development: Myth, Metaphor and Magic -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.