Using Action Research for Positivist Research
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A Framework to place Cross-cultural Case Study Research in an Information Systems Action Research Context
2 School of Management Information Systems, Deakin University, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] . ABSTRACT: The progressive evolution of the global information society has escalated the debate over effective ways to facilitate relevance in information systems research without sacrificing rigor. Accommodation of interpretivist research methodologies has been suggested to address this prob...
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