Theorising Practice and Developing Practically Relevant Insights in Organisational Research

Practically relevant research: capturing real world tasks, environments, and outcomes.

PURPOSE Development of strategies to optimize the functional performance of older adults requires understanding the behavior of older people doing tasks in real-world settings and capturing these interactions in research protocols. This is a major challenge as there is some degree of tension between capturing the contextual variables and constraints that operate in the real world and the scale ...

Grounded Theorising Applied to IS Research - Developing a Coding Strategy

This paper provides an example of developing a coding strategy to build theory of the roles of methods in IS development. The research seeks to identify and understand how system development methods are used in an IS department within a large Australian bank. The paper details a theoretical framework, particulars of data collection, and documents an early phase of analysis – data reduction and ...

Practically Relevant Quality Criteria for Requirements Documents

This paper presents common weaknesses of requirements documents from commercial software projects that frequently cause problems in practice. Many documents contain extensive, unstructured or even superfluous descriptions of details. At the same time, they lack a thorough description of the aim of the software system or one of its features. Such documents are difficult to read and to work with ...

Theorising Practice in Initial Teacher Education

Theorising participatory practice and alienation in health research: A materialist approach

Health inequalities research has shown a growing interest in participatory ways of working. However, the theoretical ideas underpinning mainstream approaches to participation remain underexplored. This article contributes to theorising participatory practice for the kind of egalitarian politics to which many of those focused on reducing health inequalities are committed. First, we argue that th...