The paper is organised into four main sections. The first section is concerned with the interpretive approach as applied within information systems (IS) research. The second section discusses the case study approach, including data collection and analysis, as applied in many IS studies. The third section presents case study as an IS research design. Finally, the paper addresses the empirical fi...

How should a firm arrive at the decision to retire and replace one of its information systems? Here we offer a proposed method for “framing” the prospective replacement decision by putting it in appropriate environmental context, that is, in the context of the larger industry where application innovations are presently underway. An applications assessment grid is presented to guide the suggeste...

In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR REASONING ABOUT EXPLAINED AND

This article presents an analysis of workplace health programme discourses within an international information technology company. Discourse refers to a system of statements that share a common force and coherence and which are socially constitutive. The representation of entities such as workplace health can be subject to competition between discourses. A critical discourse analysis was undert...