The principal objective here is to describe conceptual and research tools for achieving deeper sense-making of what happened and why it happened -including how participants interpret outcomes of what happened and the dynamics of emic (executive) and etic (researcher) sense-making. This article...

Purpose ? The principal objective here is to describe conceptual and research tools for achieving deeper sense-making of what happened and why it happened ?including how participants interpret outcomes of what happened and the dynamics of emic (executive) and etic (researcher) sense-making....

Purpose – Seeks to introduce a JBIM special issue of articles that moves the innovation‐diffusion‐adoption (IDA) literature beyond identifying key success factors to thick descriptions of the dynamics of human interactions and the enactment of decisions‐events‐outcomes using multiple...

This case study uses two storytelling methods for analysis ? an advanced hermeneutic framework and an extended form of decision systems analysis (DSA) incorporating cognitive mapping ? to explore the strategic thought in building a software house around a philosophy of ?best practice?...

Purpose – This case study research report aims to include collecting additional field interviews with the original and additional executives participating in the original case study (on the Zaplet software applications firm) to enhance the interpretations by the original case study...