Q-sorting and MIS Research: A Primer

Learning from MIS-ventures: MIS Research as a Narrative Web

It is acknowledged that MIS knowledge has always resided in conceptualizing and developing applications in the context of ‘explicit’ and well defined knowledge. In this paper, however, we contend that the less tangible aspect of knowledge, ‘tacit’ knowledge, is now the area that demands more attention from MIS researchers and academics. Tacit knowledge provides the organizational context for MI...

A Meta Analysis of MIS Research

In pursuit of the need to continually examine the field of Management Information Systems (MIS), this article presents recent trends in MIS research. All the articles in the mainstream MIS journals were examined in terms of subjects researched and methodologies employed to conduct research. The results clearly indicate the focus of efforts of researchers on Information System usage and Informat...

Health Outcomes Research: a Primer

A primer on reading research.

I am sure that many of us at times have found the reports in journals to be baffling at best and a myriad of figures, jargon, and graphs at worst. For the researcher who sincerely wishes his information read and the findings applied, the feeling of hopelessness is mirrored. The fact that scientific journals are often inundated with research material is readily demonstrated by browsing through a...

Research Paradigms and Meaning Making: A Primer

An introduction and explanation of the epistemological differences of quantitative and qualitative research paradigms is first provided, followed by an overview of the realist philosophical paradigm, which attempts to accommodate the two. From this foundational discussion, the paper then introduces the concept of meaning making in research methods and looks at how meaning is generated from qual...