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...

Purpose – This paper aims to highlight the importance of the study of emotions in the successful implementation of information systems projects in developing countries. This paper studies one emotion, namely, anger, and discusses its detrimental impact on information system interventions. This...

In their paper entitled “Demystifying Beliefs about the Natural Sciences in IS,” the authors claim that many beliefs that IS scholars have held for or against the natural sciences are erroneous or misleading. They say that, in the information systems (IS) research literature, natural science...

Introduction This issue of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) is a special issue on Business Process Management and Digital Innovation. Guest editors Jan Mendling, Brian Pentland, and Jan Recker, have done a great job in explaining the complementariness of these two approaches...

PrefaceSince the mid-1980s there has been increasing interest in qualitative research within the information systems research community. Today qualitative research is accepted as being able to provide important insights into information systems phenomena. Qualitative research involves the use of...

Until recently, most ethnographic research in information systems has been based on the traditional anthropological model of ethnography. In this traditional model of ethnography, one of the most important data-gathering techniques is participant observation. The ethnographer observes and...

The conventional wisdom amongst information systems (IS) researchers is that information systems is an applied discipline drawing upon other, more fundamental, reference disciplines. These reference disciplines are seen as having foundational value for IS. We believe that it is time to question...

Building on neo-institutional theory and theories of innovation and diffusion, recent work in the field of management has suggested that management research and practice is characterized by fashions. A management fashion is a relatively transitory belief that a certain management technique leads...